Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves explores what we can learn about learning.



Education never ends, as Sherlock Holmes once told Watson – but where does it begin? 

And how many different paths can we take on the journey to knowledge?

From preschool to postgrad, from private to public, and from sandstone to the school of life, what do the parameters of our educational experiences add up to? 

Australia is one of the most educated countries in the world, but not every Australian has access to a world-class education. 

What does a good education look like in a country with an increasingly segregated school system, public funding for private institutions, and a tertiary sector that’s facing an uncertain financial and philosophical future? 

How does education change in a country where political regard for its most basic principle – that education matters – seems to have so profoundly changed?

Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves explores what we can learn about learning.

The Australian school system 
has a serious design flaw.
Can it change before it’s too late?

"When colleagues overseas ask 
what I think about Australia’s school system,
I tell them that it does offer world-class education, 
but not for everyone."


Professor of Education Policy at the UNSW.
Pasi Sahlberg is Professor of Education Policy, and Research Director at the Gonski Institute for 
Education and the University of New South Wales. He is a Finnish educator, scholar and author who 
has worked as a mathematics and science teacher, teacher-educator, researcher, and policy advisor in 
Finland, and has held various leadership positions at the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.


"The Griffith Review is “the leading literary journal in Australia with an uncanny ability to anticipate emerging trends.” My essay that is titled “By Design: New foundations for teaching and learning” appears in issue #75 of this agenda-setting, quarterly publication that delivers insight into the issues that matter most in a timely, authoritative and engaging fashion. The Griffith review grants you a free access to three articles in their current and archived publications a month. You may read my essay by clicking here. I will be speaking about this essay and issues around it in Adelaide Writers’ Week on March 9th at 3.45pm. Details here."
by Pasi Sahlberg

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