This is the opening paragraph in today's #SatPaper . I rather resonate with the brief description of the Sydney Institute. It is incorrect to think of it as a "Conservative think tank". "…a shrine to hectoring and pedantry, where the world is held in harping stasis by a series of filing cabinets" — seems apt.

"Julia Gillard (Unley High School) was at The Sydney Institute when she said the words that would help destroy the Australian education system: “no school will lose a dollar of funding”. The institute is a confection of Gerard Henderson’s (Xavier College), a shrine to hectoring and pedantry, where the world is held in harping stasis by a series of filing cabinets."

I don't suppose Henderson would read the Saturday Paper. He would regard it as fundamentally wrong headed and a waste of his attention.

But the final paragraph of this weeks editorial poses a solution for the structurally embedded inequity in Australia's education system.

"Gonski laid out a solution more than a decade ago. It was hardly radical. He is a man known for his circumspection. Yet it cannot be implemented while governments pretend they cannot take money back from the richest schools and give just a little more to the poorest."

Couldn't agree more.

#Gonsky #Education #inequality #Fairness

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/editorial/2023/07/22/class-warfare