“I don't know”: the three most important words in education

The BMJ wants to do better with education. We are clearly “in the education business,” and the ABCs, for example, which are based on educational theory, continue to be one of the best read parts of the journal. But we want to go further by publishing more educational research, increasing the educational value of all the material we publish, and developing new educational forms on our website. This issue is a step towards achieving our educational aims.

Our increasing interest in education is partly a response to …