Re: Here's someone on our side :o)

On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:18:05 +0100, D.M. Procida wrote:

Grumbletweezer <m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/comment/story/0,,1864696,00.html?
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I'm amazed anyone even blinks an eye anymore. Business clearly regards
education as a kind of feeder system to deliver it the human resources
it wants to consume; politicians seem to concur, and more and more
schools and teachers appear to be happy to get into bed with the idea.

If I were a headteacher, which I'm not, or responsible for any of these
things, which I'm not, I wouldn't stand for business sniffing around
education, whether around the school gates or the curriculum.

Don't you think business has a legitimate right to take an interest in
education? After all it puts up a lot of the money to make it happen.

As an employer, I want educated applicants because without them the
business will die and the people working here will then be out of work and
not paying taxes. If replicated nationwide the education system will
collapse because there will be no national wealth to pay for it.

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Ian Lynch
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