When you’re anywhere under the age of 18, you can pretty much guarantee that you aren’t going to be a big fan of the whole “learning” thing. Yes, there are anomalies; kids under 18 that do like learning, and people over 18 who don’t like learning.
But the collective view is that learning is a lot less fun than playing in the mud, pulling on a girls pig tails, or kissing said girl a few years later behind the workshop.
Well, fast forward thirty years, and according to the head of Britain’s top private schools organization, sitting down and learning will be a thing of the past.
Instead, according to Chris Parry, the new chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, kids will be downloading information into their brains. This startling revelation comes via an interview with the India Times Education Supplement.
This publicly described “Matrix-style” learning method would, naturally, make the more traditional learning methods outdated. "It's a very short route from wireless technology to actually getting the electrical connections in your brain to absorb that knowledge," The Telegraph quoted him, as telling the publication.
Parry, aged 54, a retired Rear Admiral in her Majesty’s service, has spent his first month on the job making a complete nuisance of himself, and seemingly not to the distress of those he is speaking for. He first got stuck in to the Commons schools select committee, accusing them of being stuck in a “cold war” mentality, that had split private and state sectors down the line, and he grieved at the quality of state schools near his Portsmouth home, labeling them as “offensive”.
He then tore in to Beverly Hughes, the UK children’s minister, for her “clumsy intrusion” in to nursery education and “discrimination” against independent providers.
Though I don’t live in the UK, I can honestly say that I wish that Parry’s style of revitalizing education and distaste for “huge overregulation” will sweep the world, and that his strategies will be picked up here at home, and abroad.
Joshua Hill, a Geek’s-Geek from Melbourne, Australia, Josh is an aspiring author with dreams of publishing his epic fantasy, currently in the works, sometime in the next 5 years. A techie, nerd, sci-fi nut and bookworm.
