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Growing diversity in schooling in the West, however, including the rise of free schools, allows more space for those who want to try different education methods. In Britain, Montessori and Steiner Schools, which concentrate on nurturing the whole child rather than on a rigid academic curriculum, can also become state-funded free schools, and are wondering whether they should.
Most of Britain’s new state-funded academies favour a more orthodox approach. At the Mossbourne Academy, in the heart of London’s recently riot-torn borough of Hackney, Sir Michael Wilshaw heads a school which was closed for poor discipline in 1995, but is now one of the most widely-praised academies in the country. His classrooms are basically boot-camps, with strict rules about everything from uniform onwards. “Schools that are imprecise about discipline end up with a huge amount of confusion, with staff taking different views about what’s acceptable,” he says. “That’s when children are taught badly.”
One British researcher, comparing Western reforms with Eastern practice, noted that the main difference was that in Hong Kong “the effective teacher is seen as a figure of authority, morality and benevolence”. Some Western parents might like a touch of such Confucianism in their own children’s classrooms.

A. 어휘
diversity 다양성. free schools 정부의 간섭을 받지 않는 학교.
nurture 양육하다. rigid 엄격한. state-funded 국가에서 자금을 공급하는.
academies 학교. orthodox 정통적인. riot-torn 폭동으로 찢어진.
borough 자치도시. discipline 訓育(훈육), 생활지도.
boot-camps 新兵訓練所(신병훈련소). imprecise 부정확한.
staff 교직원. figure 인물. benevolence 자비심, 博愛(박애).