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The dubious quest for a national curriculum.(Education)(Viewpoint essay)
A general state education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ... in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.
--J.S. Mill, On Liberty
IN THE LEAD-UP to the 2007 federal election, both major political parties advocated developing a national curriculum to replace the existing eight state and territory approaches. Since being elected the Rudd government, with Julia Gillard as Minister for Education, has established a National Curriculum Board and agreed on a timeline to deliver the new curriculum, initially in English, ...
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