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Education is developing, not stuffing learners’ minds with mere facts

‘It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts… it is to them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves’. Robert Hutchins

A basic feature of the Curriculum Reform initiative that the Ministry of Education is spearheading is that dominance of examinations will be scaled down.

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