The learning power approach: teaching learners to teach themselves

Schools have two aims: to help young people develop the skills, knowledge and grades they will need for further study and employment; and to help them cultivate the qualities of mind that will determine - even more than their test scores - how well they will flourish in life more generally.

At the moment these two aims are being set in opposition to each other: 'traditionalists' fight for rigour and knowledge, while 'progressives' want character and well-being.

But it is a phoney and unnecessary war - so says Guy Claxton in his provocative new book.