His Dark Materials author disparages obsession with league tables and calls for theatre visits to be made part of curriculum Children's education in the arts is in a "terrible state" thanks to an obsession with exams and league tables, the award-winning novelist Philip Pullman has said. The author of the His Dark Materials trilogy urged the government to make theatre visits for schools "a firmly established part of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07PM on October 30, 2015