tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372756435305166731.post9203558156094759658..comments2008-10-05T18:52:54.075+13:00Sarah McCrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05196209889001108732noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372756435305166731.post-72238795834780515992008-10-05T18:52:00.000+13:002008-10-05T18:52:00.000+13:00Surely this is all a question of diet? What we feed the mind of our children, from social behaviour to what they NEED to know to make the greatest contribution to society and ensure their own success and happiness. Junk educational agendas, junk media and junk social morals are as damaging to the young today as cheap and ubiquitous junk food. What is stunning is the failure and neglect of society as a whole. Happy to sit and watch as our young grow obese in body and idle in mind, yet so swift to condemn the voice of reason with the yell of "freedom". Sarah McCrum is right. There needs to be a meaningful debate. The question is how to promote that debate with any realistic hope of influencing the self interested vote seekers and academics who control its outcome. Perhaps a quicker way is to set up alternative learning centres that deliver results. So many of us must be ready for that by now?adnblythnoreply@blogger.com