When the education system can't learn about itself

August 14, 2025

As a 70-plus individual in rapid decline, I find believable and interesting that all this is happening at a time of comercialisation of the education system, with record school and university attendance, and a preoccupation with data collection.

I left school after year 11 and our large technical school barely had enough students to fill a year 12 mixed class. The class sizes would be envied today and only the “best” went on to university.

Now most go on to higher education and university and we have a shortage of tradies and truck-drivers. Taxi-drivers are completing university in their cabs and cleaners and takeaway food delivery people.are financing our universities. All the while, there is a failure to recognise that stockmarket forces and Robodebt are examples of a failed tecnology we can’t wait to embrace.