Dr James Mannion

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Rethinking Education · "We need revolution, not evolution!" - Education of the Head, Heart and Hand, with Sarah Seleznyov and Liz Robinson · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Because it's hard to measure, because it's sort of ephemeral and it disappears and it doesn't fit on a spreadsheet, it sort of doesn't get taken as seriously.

And then it just made me think about the whole head, heart, hand thing, because the head stuff, I think part of the reason that we've got such a head-oriented system is that it's more measurable.

And and there are some schools that sort of do a very sort of head curriculum, if you like, that get amazing results within those confines.

Right.

You know, the schools that are achieving incredible results really are often like super traditional, very strict and all of that stuff.

But they are they are doing well in a in a head curriculum.

in the head category.

And so I was just wondering about, like, do we need to have an honest conversation here about, like, what does it, like, does it mean?

Like, does a big education mean?

And this is a provocative statement.

It's not something that I believe.

Let's play it as a devil's advocate thing.

But, like, is it essentially saying that we might have to compromise on the results in the head area in the faith that we will sort of do better in the heart and hand area, albeit...

those things are harder to measure and so it's a hard thing to get a handle on.

That would be my provocation.

Okay, go on.

I completely hear what you're saying.

I just sort of, I, and I agree that if we, if we change the assessment, and of course, this is why rethinking assessment is such a huge part of what you do.

And that's the whole of the conversation that we could perhaps get into.

But I do, I've had this thought before that like, if we're sort of advocating on, if there was, let's say the political party was to, the Secretary of State was to suggest that

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