Curriculum tsar vows to make school more 'business friendly'

Those words in today's Independent sent a chill down my spine. Education is not supposed to provide foot-soldiers for business.

I believe that the job of schools and education in general, is best expounded by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in "Emile", namely that all children are perfectly designed organisms, ready to learn from their surroundings so as to grow into virtuous adults.

I really can't take the words of Andrew Hall, the new head of the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency that seriously, given that he apparently rejected a teaching career for accountancy.

What you need is MORE people in education who love, respect, and cherish children rather than be worried about double entry book-keeping.

Maybe I should send him a copy of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed?