Friday 27 April 2007
Ancient History
The powers-that-be are seriously considering dropping Ancient History from the curriculum. I can't understand the thinking behind this. The decision-makers have clearly forgotten that for a teenager (the group targeted) anything that happened yesterday and earlier is ancient history. So to drop it would cut quite a large slice out of the process of historical research.
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This is lamentable news. But I remember Charles Clarke, when he was Edukayshun Secatry, saying that he did not think the classics should be taught so the writing has been on the wall for a while. I read (in The Times on 27/4/07?) that boys are reluctant readers. The Government should be doing all it can to help them to do so, not encourage them to stop! Grrrrrrr.
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