Comments on: Howard’s last word on education.

By: kryptosporidian

kryptosporidian — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:59:50 +0000

oh take a look ath him he’s yesterday’s zero, yesterday’s weirdo.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:58:47 +0000

He can say all he wants about education now. I’m glad I won’t have his government looking over my shoulder while I’m trying to teach.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:56:36 +0000

So what he is saying is that we don’t need a revolution at all, just a regression?

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:23:20 +0000

To be fair Lee, last night with Kerry he did say that he was ‘being ironic’ when he used the phrase education revolution during the debate. It seems that Mr Howard can take a seat next to Alanis Morissette in remedial English.

By: raydixon

raydixon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:55:59 +0000

Yesterday’s man will soon be part of that “proper narrative of Australian history” only it won’t be “The history of Australia according to John Howard”. He’ll simply be remembered as a lucky little man of no great substance who unexpectedly became Prime Minister and somehow managed to keep the job for over 11 years, the second longest serving leader in our “history”. Amen.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:17:26 +0000

Long time fan, firtst time commentor.

I love the tag “7.30 report, John Howard, Idiot”.

Cast your mind back to the debate. Howards own ‘education revolution’
He said that what we really need in education is a restoration of basic standards. “Before anything else, we need to produce children out of schools who can read and write and spell and add up. We also need to overturn that terrible mistake that was made 30 years ago when we abandoned specific technical colleges or technical schools.
He concluded with:
“So my three goals, my education revolution, if I can borrow a phrase, would be to restore those basic standards, bring back trades education, thorough going, and restore a proper narrative and a proper understanding of Australian history. ”

‘Restore’, ‘bring back’ and ‘restore’ again. Quite the revolution – Let’s get education standards back to the the 1970′s. Perhaps what he meant was that you can’t learn by reading a book; you need a piece of slate.