Should schools focus on restoring authority?
The priority for schools should be restoring authority and discipline.
- Strongly agree
- Somewhat agree
- Somewhat disagree
- Strongly disagree
What's at stake: The debate is about school priorities: authority and discipline as the condition for learning, or the love of learning and critical thinking.
The left's argument
School should first spark a love of learning and critical thinking: calm will follow.
The right's argument
Without authority and discipline in class, no pupil can learn: it's the foundation.
And you, where do you stand?
Answer 30 situations like this one and find out where you stand, topic by topic.