“If children are encouraged to choose within their growing capacity to choose, they will flourish in all the fields of enquiry and once more astonish the world. Those who destroyed it did so essentially because they could not bear to think that they might lose control of a vigorous, unpredictable, irreverent movement whose work could not be measured and was only concerned with the child. They didn’t understand that learning by experience is a difficult skill to acquire. Doing what you are told is easy, the challenge for some being to see what they can get away with. Making choices is a skill which lives with you as we see in the dilemmas in which our MPs find themselves.” Geoffrey Marshall