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

I think maybe the problem is still that we, as a society (businesses
included) have a problem deciding what we want education to do. The CBI et.
al. do seem to give the impression that education is for the benefit of the
economy, the current governemnet seems to agree - here's one point where I
miss those Victorian values :o)

My own particular beef here is that business will continually push for
lower taxation or even re-locate itself to avoid paying tax, while
demanding what seems like a disproportionate (sp?) say in education etc.
What exactly it is they want is hard to tell - according to one set of
figures (see my posting elsewhere) our 12 year olds are 3rd in the world
with their standard of literacy - just how good do they have to be for the
CBI to be satisfied? Or, is it possible that, for some at least, it's
convienient to blame education for the lack of business success in a global
market: China isn't an economic powerhouse because of it's education system
(yet). Indeed, in a world economy in which ideas are becoming the high-
value items, it seems odd to be stuffing kids heads with facts and telling
them how they should think - it's not just good spellers we need, but free
thinkers.

Hmmm - did that go a bit off the point :-/

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