Quinn’s education reform doesn’t add up

Ruairi Quinn’s speech at the Magill School was full of little gems. My favourite is “.... in equipping our young people for the future, we know that the acquisition of knowledge itself will no longer be a key skill.”

Why learn history or general knowledge when all you will need is to know how to use Google or Wikipedia? Use that extra time to bulk up on Maths and technical stuff.

He talked about mass unemployment and how a reformed education system would be a cure. The corollary is that the unreformed education system contributed to the unemployment.