Welcome to another edition of The World Has Gone Utterly
Mad. We often bemoan the rarity of a certain valuable human quality. No, not mercy,
we have bags of that stuff; we have mercy coming out of our ears; its quality
is not strained at all in comparison with the quality, or quantity of common
sense. It is often said that such sense is as common as rocking horse shit.
Given that a recent study found that 7% of graduates could not read a fuel
gauge properly and 3.4% of them struggled to understand medicine labels it’s hardly
surprising. In fact I imagine a good percentage of them don’t really understand
the concept of percentages.
Education, education, oh I give up; what’s the point? In
a statement neatly capturing the bleeding obvious, the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said an undergraduate degree was
too expensive and unsuitable for people with poor literacy and numeracy. No
shit, Sherlock? Hmm, I wonder who the government could have asked who could
have told them that their logic in herding all the sheep into the degree pens was
fundamentally flawed. Oh, that’s right, everybody who had nothing to gain by
telling the truth.
You don’t ask the wolf to come to dinner, so why would
you trust ‘educationalists’ to offer ‘solutions’ for non-problems which would
hugely benefit their industry? It’s like asking the opinion of a door-knocking Pikey
about whether your drive needs Tarmacking or your roof needs fixing. We are
short of builders not because our young are too busy building business empires
but because when they deign to get out of bed at all their soft, white, graduate
hands are ‘too good’ for simple honest hard graft.
We can’t employ our own young because they are not up to
it – at least that is the excuse often trotted out – so we import others to do
it instead. All those years in education but what do they have to show for it?
Possessing poor social skills, under-developed working skills and, as this
report shows, as thick as mince, we have coddled the minds of a whole
generation with the connivance of politicians and effectively rendered them unemployable.
So what a brilliant idea it is to consider consigning paper rounds and holiday jobs
to history as well; cut off the development of that work ethic at every turn.
Equal education = equally unprepared for the world.
This latest
interference from Brussels comes as people of my generation stare aghast at the
inanities pouring from the open mouths of the establishment gargoyles around
David Cameron’s supposed renegotiation of our relationship with the EU. Social
engineering might be a good thing if it produced, you know, engineers, but all
it ever seems to do is weaken resolve, blur boundaries, create yet more
dependency, criminalise more of us for plain speaking and cost ever more
opportunities for generating real wealth. Sure, your precious offspring might
become human rights lawyers, or gender identity councillors, or race relations advisors...
but who is going to pay for all that do goody good bullshit?
