>hand-in-hand with a restructuring of the last years at school:
down-grading
>the delivery of a curriculum of knowledge and upgrading the teaching
of
>social skills and the "road-map" of how to learn more under one's own
>steam.
Restructuring the last years at school? Down-grading the delivery of a
curriculum of knowledge? Listen to yourself man! You sound like a social
engineer from germany in the 1930s. Wake up! This is an historical blip,
the <italic>result </italic>of continual social "restructuring" and
"downgrading" since the Thatcher/Reagan era. In short, it can't last.
Neo-liberalism, the doctrine of the so-called Centre-Left, and all its
discourses of (to misquote and conflate Huxley and Blair) "identity,
accountability, responsibility" are dangerous, sloganistic claptrap. Are
these your children whose curricula you are talking about downgrading?
I'll bet not.
Liberal education is the single most important aspect of civil society.
An education of whichever stripe does not create the job for which it is
designed. This is especially so in a technologically oriented society.
Phil Graham
pw.graham@student.qut.edu.au
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/8314/index.html
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