Schools should teach children how to think — not what to think. That’s the essence of Margaret Thatcher’s argument: core skills first, ideology nowhere near the classroom. Thatcher maintained that education should focus on literacy, numeracy, and knowledge, not political slogans or partisan ideology. She wasn’t my favourite PM, but on keeping ideology out ofContinue reading “Teach Minds — Don’t Mould Them!”
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Rage Against The Machine
Elon Musk has left even his most ardent fans terrified after he revealed his tech start-up, Neuralink, has become the first to successfully implant a microchip into a human brain. According to the richest man in the world, the procedure was performed on Sunday, and “initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” The device calledContinue reading “Rage Against The Machine”
THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO 