Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, is one of the Professors of Education of The College of Teachers. In his Professorial Inaugural Lecture, he delivered an analysis of the UK's education system. Professor Seldon is deeply in favour of rigorous assessment, but believes that so much external testing is not helping to educate young people and has come to determine and drive the curriculum, and that right and wrong answers-facts-have come to dominate exams with the effect of squeezing out originality, imagination, individuality and flair. The text of his lecture, which was held at Wellington College earlier this year, is given below. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]