Read this article in The Guardian about the sources of some serious allegations by a Londen cabinet minister!
It is such a beauty and deserves as many readers outside of the UK as possible.
When you are done smiling, the blogster would like to take you to another place. The article also quotes a "history quiz taken by 284 undergraduates in which 83% did not know that Wellington led the British army at Waterloo".
Let's make a claim: It does not matter whether you know this.
This sounds awful, and we will concede that it may matter under certain circumstances. What we do mean it that it does not matter if you have the time and the willingness to look it up.
This claim comes from someone who had an education that included this fact and a million more, someone who beat natives of another country in a historical facts quiz, someone who just recently passed five online "citizenship tests" without cheating.
Times have changed, get used to it.
Teach the kids some logic, teach them democracy and empathy.
One more claim: The fact that Mr. Gove won't be out of a job tomorrow really kind of underscores that facts alone don't make a life.
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