Education – the leading out: those Romans put their finger, as so often, on the important thing, but twenty centuries later we are still more concerned with ramming in information, rather than leading it forth. Our educational system is still based on the assumption that education consists of facts, information and rigidly ‘right’ answers which must, by fair means or foul, be crammed down the gullets of the young. The effects of such a misplaced assumption are various and depressing: most teachers feel threatened, rather than excited, by the bright student who questions a ‘right’ answer; children think of education as something aimed at and stopping at certain terminal exams; parents seize on those books which announce with such chilling effect that they aim to make learning fun.