Gormless Gove is rumoured to have a great new idea to follow up from today’s great leap backward. Currently the wet mouthed lunatic who is supposed to be in charge of the British education system has just launched his scheme to change every curriculum in the country, at all learning levels, in one year whilst simultaneously changing the examination system. The man’s an unrecognized genius; unrecognized for very good reasons. His new curriculum is designed to minimize the levels of skills and understand amongst students and maximize the amount of rote learning of data. For example, History will be taught chronologically and pupils will need memorize key dates that are essential in today’s global, competitive marketplace. The first syllabus will include these nation forming event dates that must be internalized:
3952 BC (or 4004 BC in Northern Ireland); 60 AD; 537 AD; 878 AD; 1157 (only in Wales) and 1215. {NOTE: there are other famous dates in the syllabus that have been omitted).
Since many (most?) CBFers were educated in the “Golden Age” of British education I am sure these dates will be very familiar to you. You will be pleased that a new generation of citizens will benefit from knowing these numbers.
So what is Gove’s new big idea? All seven year olds to start learning Latin and continue their studies until they are eleven or can read Aeneid from start to finish.
Is any or all of the above true? Difficult to tell with Gove, isn’t it?