CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT BUT IT MAKES THE HUMAN MIND CONTENT….

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPLETE

GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE COMPLETE

A LEVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE COMPLETE

GCSE English Language and A Level Literature all done….Or is it?

So today is the first day when the GCSE and A Level English Literature students all sigh a breath of relief and take their first step forward into the holidays. For some, it’s the not getting out of bed for hours which is their moment of release. For others, it is the stream of tears which overcome them as they are totally overwhelmed by the understanding that everything they have been working towards so diligently and so meticulously is now over. Or is it?

Perhaps, in education we are getting it wrong . Perhaps, the desire for straight G9 grades and a memory for making sure that all marking criteria is ticked is not healthy. Perhaps we need to focus on making the individual curious. The real sign of success is not the student who never picks up a copy of An Inspector Calls or Macbeth ever again and gains a Grade 9 ,but rather those students who start to realise that Capitalism does impact a society and Lady Macbeth is a totally emancipated woman. It is about curiosity ; that must be the answer. It is the curious individual who wonders why The Italians were amazing painters, why The Stereophonics have written a certain lyric or why Billy Connolly has a total empathy with words and makes people laugh.

SO, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Take all your knowledge, forget the marking criteria and start to apply and build it. GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ENGLISH LITERATURE and A LEVEL ENGLISH LIT have not finished : they have only just begun!

MALVERN ENGLISH TUTORS WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL YEAR 11 AND YEAR 13 STUDENTS A GREAT SUMMER.