Seven myths about education

In her Seven myths about education (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014), Daisy Christodoulou discusses "seven widely held beliefs which are holding back pupils and teachers." They are:

1. facts prevent understanding
2. teacher-led instruction is passive
3. the twenty-first century fundamentally changes everything
4. you can always just look it up
5. we should teach transferable skills
6. projects and activities are the best way to learn
7. teaching knowledge is indoctrination

E.D. Hirsch writes, in his foreword, that the seven myths "have one enormous drawback." "They are," he explained, "empirically incorrect." They do not correspond to how our minds work. They are "disastrous conceptual mistakes."