Tuesday, July 17, 2007
we haven't cornered the market
The new secondary history curriculum for British public schools has dropped Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, the Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. from its list of historical figures recommended for teaching as part of a "more flexible" and "less prescriptive" approach better suited to "equipping young people with the skills for life and work in the 21st century."
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Yes, we don't want people to actually learn history. If they did we couldn't get people to blindly go along as we repeat it.
... and the "skills for life and work in the 21st century" clearly won't require a brain, or character.
Nope, just the ability to do repetitve tasks and spend at least 10% more than you earn. Definately no brain or character. People with either a brain or character don't always do as they're told.
I got the skills for the 21st century. My clients call me hoover.
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