Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

Some of the now confessed bastardry of Australian banks has now been exposed, at the highest possible level. The Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens, chose his words carefully – and spoke politely – when he did that late yesterday. But those who heard him had no doubts about what he was really saying.

Reading, ’riting and ‘rithmetic are not the objectives of an education system. Rather, they are by-products. What an education system must primarily do is foster a love of learning – the skills and attributes that a child learning to walk has, but appears to lose with age.