<p>Tony Little is The Headmaster of Eton. One of the most progressive and imaginative<br>people in British education today he has hitherto kept a low profile. This book<br>accompanies a three part television series to be screened on BBC 2 but differs from it<br>significantly.</p><p>There is a crisis in the British education system. Year on year GCSE and A Level pupils<br>post better exam results, with more students achieving top grades. Yet business<br>leaders and employers complain bitterly that our schools are not producing people fit for<br>purpose. What we have become is a nation `Over schooled and under educated`.<br>Far from being locked in an ivory tower, a bastion of privilege, Mr Little has used his time<br>as a teacher and headmaster to get to grips with fundamental questions concerning<br>education. He wants to produce people fit to work in the modern world. How do children<br>absorb information? What kind of people does society need? What is education for? Not<br>only is the author one of the great reforming headmasters of our time but he has planted<br>Academies in the East end of London, founded a state boarding school near Windsor and<br>yet is a passionate advocate of single sex schools.</p><p>This book is not a text book for colleges of education- it is a book to enlighten the<br>teaching profession and just as much for anxious parents. The book is simply arranged<br>under topics such as authority, expectations, progress, self-confidence, sex, crises and<br>creativity.</p><p>Tony Little thinks it is time to ask some fundamental questions, and to make brave<br>decisions about how we make our schools and our schoolchildren fit for purpose.<u></u></p>