Some schools 'dumbing down' English classes: PM
(From Yahoo News)
Prime Minister John Howard has attacked the way some state education systems teach English, describing some courses as "rubbish".
Mr Howard says literary classics are treated no differently from what he calls "pop cultural commentary", and he says subjects are being "dumbed down" because of it.
Mr Howard blames political correctness.
"We also understand that there's high quality literature and there's rubbish, and we need a curriculum tha:t encourages an understanding of the high quality literature and not the rubbish," he said.
Mr Howard has also described the model of "outcomes based" learning as "gobbledegook".
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