There's a lot in this article that I dislike, but rather than dwell on particulars I want to talk about the sweep of the article as a whole - the idea that a government minister believes he can become an expert in a few years by talking to people, and specifically, those people who support his already entrenched views, and implement policies based on this, contrary to the "paradigm cartel", the "tyranny of the expertois", who (presumably) have become experts in some other way, implementing policy in a few months ("elected in May. The bill was ready in June, and it was on the statute book, when the House rose at the end of July") and then turning the system over to private schools while saying "the quality of thinking about behaviour policy, retrieval practice, knowledge organisers, the content of the curriculum, pedagogy generally – it is way beyond anything that Michael Gove, or I, or Dominic Cummings could have thought up because we have unleashed professional autonomy to deliver those kind of things." It's education as ideology, or as I said earlier, 'the Davos picture'.
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