I was delighted to read in this morning's paper that Richard Dawkins is interested in setting up a free school. Naturally, I don't share his antipathy towards taxpayer-funded faith schools, most of which achieve much better results than secular state school, but his rationalist approach to education is an almost perfect fit with the ethos of the school my group is hoping to start.
"I would never want to indoctrinate children in atheism, any more than in religion," he told Mumsnet yesterday. "Instead, children should be taught to ask for evidence, to be sceptical, critical, open-minded." (To read more, click here.)
