What is everyone so worried about? What’s the fuss? It can’t be that awful, can it?
As a professional, surely we should be taking our creativity
and expertise into overdrive, shouldn’t we?
Why should we be asking “why?”? Why aren't we demanding, hands-on-hips
indignation, “why not?”?
I think this can be great, can’t it? In fact, could we go so
far as to say that this could be our finest hour?
Only when we ask the big questions do we get anywhere, don’t
you think? That’s why we had the idea
that the new curriculum should be loaded with questions, shouldn’t it? These are only our first suggestions – we hope
you like them – what do you think?
“How do you make the
purple, and how does it sound?”
“How many Bristols
are there around the world?”
“Where did that
mountain come from?”
“Was Hadrian's building firm the first example of private enterprise?"
“What do those
musical notes actually mean?”
Don’t you think that sometimes we get far too obsessed with
answers? When did the questions become
less important? The joy, the craft, the
sheer art of discover surely never started with someone saying “I know that
already thanks” did it? Did we get as far
as we have by people like Mozart / Moliere / Michael Angelo / Madge from Neighbours
saying “It’s alright lads, we’ve got this one covered”?
Did the code breakers at Bletchley, or the people who
deciphered the Rosetta Stone, or the people who attempt to listen to Shane
McGowan, all start with an answer?
Don’t you think this could be great? Shouldn't we be using this as an opportunity
to design and build something really exciting?
For once, couldn't we do it as a united profession that shows everyone how
creative and passionate we are? Did I
leave the iron on?
Could we not take this new curriculum, with all its little idiosyncrasies,
and transform it into something truly amazing that children up and down the
land will be desperate to discover? (Maybe the kid who put question marks after everything in Thunders and Lightning had a point after all?)
It could be amazing, couldn't it? Why not?
That is all….?
