Gove, who advocates rote-learning of poems and kings and queens of England, has always had a narrow conception of education.
Its emphasis on the dual importance of moral and intellectual training was very appealing to the 15th and 16th centuries' humanist conception of education.
It was in this atmosphere of virile camaraderie that there developed the characteristic ideal of Greek love that was enduringly to mark Hellenic civilization and to deeply influence its conception of education itself for example, in the relation of master to pupil.
Based on this conception of education, input and the quality of the process are what determine the quality of outputs or graduates.
Biological evolution, the process by which all living things simultaneously adapt and explore, is not only an apt metaphor for this more integrated and more fluid conception of education but a valuable reminder that humans, like all living organisms, are born with the capacity to integrate and explore in ways that reinforce rather than conflict with one another.
aData adjusted for fixed effects predictors of: parent in a relationship, parent gender, biological child, family formation (heterosexual sex, home insemination, ART, surrogacy, unknown donor), relationship at conception, parent education, household income, parent age, and region, and the random effects predictor of family.
As a result, said Strachey, "the monastic and literary conceptions of education, which had their roots in the middle ages, he adopted almost without hesitation... devoted to the teaching of Greek and Latin grammar".
He warms to his theme: "I do get a little bit cross about this Government's policy of playing to popular conceptions about education – particularly around behaviour and discipline".
Ultimately, this study helps to establish a new conception of creativity education as a type of education that values and facilitates personal transfer.
