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Gove has clearly gone bonkers, bit also shows a frightening ignorance... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/8227535/Michael-Gove-my-revolution-for-culture-in-classroom.html For example peruse these quotes: "It's become fashionable over the Christmas holidays to refer to the Coalition
as a Maoist enterprise" Really? Must have missed that on Today or PM...or "in education, where I am happy to
confess I’d like us to implement a cultural revolution just like the one
they’ve had in China" Now how many died during the Cultural Revolution? Opinions vary..perhaps 1 million, possibly 3 million...So who is Chairman Gove intending to bump off, I wonder... Or
"I was in the Far East last month, to see what I could learn. In one Beijing
school I was handed a thick book with screeds of Chinese characters and the
odd paragraph in English. “Is this a textbook,” I asked? No, I was told, it
was a compendium of research papers published in academic journals by people
at the school. “Gosh,” I replied. “Your teachers must be well qualified if
they are regularly publishing new work in university journals.”
The papers were not, I was told, the professional work of the teachers. They
were the homework of the pupils. And lest you think the example was a
one-off, I had exactly the same experience in a Singapore school just two
days later.
Schools in the Far East are turning out students who are working at an
altogether higher level than our own".
Does he actually believe this? If he does I'd love to try to sell him something...or "Like Chairman Mao, we’ve embarked on a Long March to reform our education
system". Is this a China fixation, or is he angling for a few more trips to the Far East paid for by you & me?
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