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  I do hope what you say there Philip is not the case.
  
  It's hard to believe that anybody can be prepared for today's world in the same way as in times gone by. I think it is exactly the wrong thing to do to train children for the workplace. While this method might have worked when industry was stagnant;I am a miner/seaman/steel worker/ship builder, as my father was and his father before him...and so on. The history of industrial development is littered with fool-things that were said by the then industry giant;I foresee a time when every town will have one. Telephones. No country will be able to function without one or two of these babies. Computers. (I paraphrase)
  The simple truth is that we must strive to ensure that all children are adept at the basics, the three 'Rs' and give them practice and a sense of the wider scope to which these simple tools can open the future for them...no matter what the future brings.
  If many of today's children fall short on these points we must blame ourselves. It is little better than cowardice to blame the children.
  As we are all now familiar with the stark fact that you cannot fatten a pig by weighing it why is it that all we come up with to improve matters is to change the substance in the pan of the balance scale against which achievement is measured?
  I seem to remember Ken Clark telling us all that the future for employment in Britain was in the service industries. (sigh!)
  You could have been forgiven way back then for calling him ahead of the times with this notion of 'WWW'.
  Only his 'www' meant Weeding, Washing and Wiping. No sign of the internet back then either.

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