I don't think this is real

[doodab]

Alternatively, he's trying to do what he thinks is best for education in this country, but people don't agree with how he thinks things should be done.

That might be true, but the fact is like most politicians he hasn't a ******* clue what he's doing.

In general, politicians and other managermen, but particularly the Tories, seem to be convinced you can make everything better and cheaper just by providing less money and demanding more, usually demanding that something be as good or better than something that costs twice as much. If it were you or I buying white goods or a car we'd be laughed out of the shop but for some reason a certain chunk of the electorate lap this tulip up because they have no idea what things actually cost and are convinced that anything that costs more than their house is too expensive, even if it's a state of the art warship or a healthcare system for 60 million people.

While there may have been some mileage in this method of driving costs down during the Thatcher era when there was fat to be cut the fact is that after a certain point cycle after cycle of these "efficiency drives" just ****s things up. You can't expect to have the best healthcare system in Europe and the best education system in Europe and the largest defense budget in Europe when your tax take is 8-10% of GDP lower than the countries that lead the field. Being the best costs money.

[d000hg]

Alternatively, he's trying to do what he thinks is best for education in this country, but people don't agree with how he thinks things should be done.

I doubt his raison d'être is to cripple the country, drown all the puppies, etc.

Most teachers seem to think he is clueless rather than evil. I think they're probably right, much as I dislike the argument "X never did Y for a job".

[Ticktock]

Most teachers seem to think he is clueless rather than evil. I think they're probably right, much as I dislike the argument "X never did Y for a job".

Most English Lit. teachers have never been successful authors.
Most Music teachers never released an album.
Most Art teachers have nothing hanging in galleries.
Most Chemisty teachers have never been in a lab outside a school / uni.
Most Physics teachers have never worked at CERN.

For them, it's fine that most have never worked in a job using the subject they teach, outside of teaching.
Gove is employed to push policy on education, not to stand in a classroom.

[d000hg]

Subject teachers do require (generally) a degree in their subject though. Gove doesn't even have an education education and hasn't been through the education system he wishes to reform. I the latter might be a bigger criticism although the biggest criticism is that all his ideas are either daft, unworkable or both.

Also your examples are a bit daft, deliberately absurd one might say, even. Very few musicians release albums, very few artists have paintings in galleries, very few physicists work in CERN, and the study of literature is about studying it not writing it.

[Doggy Styles]

Subject teachers do require (generally) a degree in their subject though. Gove doesn't even have an education education and hasn't been through the education system he wishes to reform. I the latter might be a bigger criticism although the biggest criticism is that all his ideas are either daft, unworkable or both.

Also your examples are a bit daft, deliberately absurd one might say, even. Very few musicians release albums, very few artists have paintings in galleries, very few physicists work in CERN, and the study of literature is about studying it not writing it.

Equally the running of education is about running it, not teaching in it.