To an ordinary mug Australian, concerned about his country’s present terrible educational lameness, it is reassuring that all the clever people seem now to be agreed about the single simple cure for it: more money. Labelled by the federal government as the “Gonski Report”, a conspectus of our educational shortcomings has been displayed for public consideration. All our weaknesses will melt away in the face of great buckets of money, we are told. Everything from leaky school roofs to truancy; from classroom misbehaviour to incompetent and subversive teachers; from head lice to shortages of personal computers; from a boring Left-skewed…
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