I have always loved looking after children. Helping them to learn and grow over this important part of their lives was always something I wanted to do, so when I began my training as a primary school teacher, I was excited about getting into the classroom and looked forward to teaching them the essential knowledge they would need to develop into intelligent and capable adults. 

It did not take long for me to realise, however, that this was no longer the priority of primary education; what I thought was a simple matter of imparting knowledge to the young has instead become...