A good headmaster gone astray (into government)
I’m listening* to Michael Gove and am impressed with his
hyper-activity (he might be a difficult pupil, mind you): all those ideas, changes,
reforms, experiments, all the pressure he keeps applying, all the telling off. And
it strikes me: he’d make a good, or at least interesting, headmaster. What a
shame that he – along with his government, his society and his system – has mistaken
the role of a headmaster with that of a government…
*to be precise, I keep
listening: he doesn’t seem to shut up, just like Pau, my Mallorcan pet pupil;
and just like me.
PS The more I think about it, the more it strikes me: the
mad idea to have a Ministry of Education (the mere name sounds Nazi/Stalinist/Orwellian
) may be the most devilishly totalitarian
one of them leftist all*.
Pictures: top - telegraph.co.uk; bottom - geoffreid.com
*pardon my English (again), but I’ve decided to try to experiment with
English even more freely, regard-free whether my experiments make sense or not, in
line with my motto: if it ain’t fix, broke it. And I don't care what marks you give me: I run this school.
