Our society has become more individualised and fragmented.
Perhaps, teachers can opt for a more individualised approach to homework.
Nicholson says we need to move to more individualised advice, as researchers are trying to do in pharmacology.
The wheel is almost coming full circle, turning away from mass manufacturing and towards much more individualised production.
"Being able to foster contacts used to come with the news brand, but that is more and more individualised and personalised.
"There's an alternative and scary future where people become more individualised – they shove each of their children into a driverless car to go to school," she says.
When we talk of the NHS as more than a universal service but also a personal service meeting more individualised needs too, we mean more power for nursing.
The committee calls on the Government to consider moving away from the current pricing model based on the benefit claimed to a much more individualised, needs-based system.
As time goes by people may gradually adjust themselves to these more individualised ways of making money and spending it; but not many of them have adjusted yet.
On top of that, there will be a rise of more than 10% in the funds going direct to schools to bring in more individualised teaching and provide activities such as after-school clubs.
While they do free up the teacher to provide more individualised attention, they do not have the same effect as simply having smaller classes: results in maths and literacy are not improved by having teaching assistants.
