Longer school days, shorter school hols. Out goes the fuddy duddy 19th century agricultural model. In comes the more cutting-edge East Asian model of relentless drudgery. If we don’t follow this, we’ll lose the “global race” to countries like Singapore or Japan or China.
Our tots are simply not as full of facts as theirs. “Longer hours” will fill them up, though there is no scientific evidence to support this.
“We either start working as hard as the Chinese, or we’ll all soon be working for the Chinese.” I’m not sure how this will play with my Chinese pupils Tuvshin or Jing Sheng – or, indeed, with Ronald “The Sloth” Crumlin.
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