The Problem with Education

Apparently, the Australian Curriculum – a decade in the making, written by a panel of independent experts, peer-reviewed by dozens of educators – needs an overhaul. It’s left-leaning. Not Judeo-Christian enough. The content is too heavily biased towards Indigenous perspectives and too focused on engagement with Asia. There’s too much science and not enough economics.

In other words, schools should be modelled more on banks and less on think-tanks.

Perhaps it’s not the content of the Australian Curriculum that needs an overhaul. Perhaps we need to entirely rethink education’s place in our society.

Imagine, for a moment, that we had an education department that was independent of the government.

An independent education department with the autonomy to design and implement a curriculum that is free of political bias and personal agenda.

An independent education department with annual federal funding that is then distributed equitably to schools according to individual student needs.

An independent education department…