Education is a big subject with politicians this election year. Photo/Thinkstock
It's a long time since most of us were at school. But it shouldn't stop us learning.
That's the message Parliamentary aspirants should be getting as New Zealand launches into an election year where education is already entrenched in the queue.
As a real issue, as one to distract us
from other things that might really matter, or to prise the floating votes which might depend on whether one has a job for the next three years or not.
Therein, a classic comparison of reason and purpose. Politicians tossing their coins over triennial re-employment, while making decisions that affect whether those of the next generation ever get a job, at all.
Politics is, of course, a much bigger field than that, but at one end the Prime Minister has pledged a few educational leaders will be paid (a lot) more to rectify problems in under-performing schools, and at the other a bull-rush of children having in the last week started or resumed on a path all-but guaranteeing they're the pupils of the aforesaid schools.
