Philip Pullman decries 'terrible state' of children's education in the arts
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…