Curious

A curious mind. That is the stated target for the Indooroopilly State School. They like stating things.

They want their graduates to have curious minds. Curious indeed.

Applying my very curious mind (and not the product of any curriculum) and my well-trained rational skills (something they actually could teach and that is becoming very short in supply), here are some of their built-in assumptions:

(1) curiosity is deemed as a necessity for innovation, 

(2) innovation is the future of labour in our post-tech world, 

(3) curiosity is in short supply,

(4) graduates with curious minds will do very well in this world,

(5) curiosity is very hard to teach,

(6) but we can do it,

(7) so, please admire us,

(8) and don’t you dare use your dodgy home-grown curiosity to question our institutional model of curiosity.

As ever, their delusions don’t matter because everyone else has them. 

So their graduates are at no competitive disadvantage with their cargo-cult curiosity skills, sans rational skills.

This is in fact just a marketing program designed to feed everybody the lies without which they would feel unworthy. 

Bloody curious indeed.