Hello,
I’m David Davis, and I had the good fortune to know Chris Tame for many years in London. Although retired both from active politics and employment, I’m going to contribute a regular log on (mostly) education matters.
This will address what I see as a serious problem, using my daily experience of educating youngsters (which I do because it’s necessary and I’m a scientist and I want others to love science and join me in marvelling like Newton and Faraday, at the work of God’s mind) the ways in which States, principally this one which I know most about, manipulate junk-science nostrums and nationalised curricula, designed and imposed by non-libertarians (I’m being kind there!) to bring about party-political objectives.
Geography, once a noble and hard science, but now in British schools the repository of nothing exccept 60s Marxism, will not be left out. Nor will maths; you will be astounded at what has happened to maths.
That’s all rather a mouthful, but I wanted to see if I could get the essence of the hopefully coming and hopefully regular blog all into one sentence………..er, I can’t. Never mind, there is plenty of material, and my problem will be what to leave out.
