It seems common sense is a thing of the past

Not so long ago a Melbourne newspaper reported that young women are starting to have babies whilst they (the women!) are still young; just as their – eminently wise - grand and, great grandmothers did!

And the newspaper carried a report stating that better students are those whose parents help their children with homework and who themselves are strict on school work being completed. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather! Why on earth do “expert” reports have to be commissioned to report on what any reasonably, sensible person knows?

Common sense is no longer common in so much of modern life. Everybody is waffling on about “education” so I’d like everybody to define precisely what, “education” for our children actually, is. I’ll start by quoting a close business associate: “It’s not so much a matter of back, to basics; rather forward, to fundamentals!”