Inspiration

It is clear to me that kids in primary schools really miss inspirational teaching. Its just so much drudgery to them.

Occasionally some interesting person drops in to a class and inspires the kids, but this is a once-in-year event, if it happens at all.

Our teachers are over-worked and under-paid bureaucrats and we can’t expect them to turn on the inspirational tap on a daily basis, if at all.

Maybe we need to utilise our population of recent retirees and get the best of them to spend an hour or two a week with a class to pass on some life-education and some inspiration.

If they won’t do it voluntarily then maybe a tax break or two on their superannuation might do the trick. Once they start I think they would be hooked.

Then, of course, a quality control mechanism will be needed to filter out the less capable and less inspiring, and also to judge when the use-by date has been reached.