Limitless: Why All Pupils Can Learn Well
Yesterday, I spoke at the ResearchEd National Conference about a very simple idea that has occupied much of my thinking and writing for several years: all pupils can learn well. I have previously described the collection of ideas underpinning this assertion as my Limitless model of education, although the name perhaps requires a little explanation.
To say that human cognitive potential is, for all practical educational purposes, limitless is not to claim that everyone will become a concert pianist, a theoretical physicist or a mathematician. Nor does it mean that everyone learns at the same rate, finds the same things interesting or will eventually reach the same level of expertise in every domain. Human beings plainly differ from one another in countless ways.
