As you say CD that person was demonstrably unsuited to be a head teacher - nothing to do with whether she was a good teacher or not.

Maybe if teachers were less regimented in what they had to teach, how they were allowed to teach and what materials they were allowed to use when teaching then we might be getting a larger proportion of well educated and rounded students at the end of the process.

At the moment schools, colleges and universities do produce large numbers of well educated and rounded members of society who go on to be productive members of society - do all these young people end up like this "in spite of the system"?

It's easy to be critical of the education system, a little less comfortable if it is suggested that the real problem lies not in what they did or didn't learn at school but what they learned at home.