Erica Stanford is 100% wrong about public education and NCEA

It’s not just the deeply racist sources for her attack on Māori in kids books.

It’s not just the smoke and mirrors bullshit she’s used to pretend her policies are working.

It’s deeper than that.

Erica Stanford is 100% wrong about public education and NCEA.

I’ve just finished reading Professor Welby Ings’ incredible new book, ‘Invisible Intelligence – Why your child might not be failing’, and I simply don’t believe you can have an opinion on public education or the NCEA changes if you haven’t read it.

Professor Ings is a New Zealand education academic and his revelations about the NZ Education system are a must read for every Teacher, Politician and Parent to truly understand the limitations of the current system vs what it could be.

I first came across Professor Ings on Q+A with Jack Tame, I was amazing by the discussion and invited him onto The Bradbury Group.

I am inviting him back on next week to discuss his book in full and the NCEA changes.

I’ll also publish a review of his book over the weekend.

He provides an insight and oversight of the current educational philosophies that underpin the myopic focus on writing, reading and arithmetic tested in a time pressure environment.

His thoughts are revolutionary, compassionate and incredibly clever.

His book has given me a real sense of hope and optimism of what our public education system could actually be and it is very far away from the shallow puddle Erica wants to reduce our great Public Education lake into.

This is a debate worthy having because we want a public education system that can build every young life it touches.

There are very few silver bullets to the pains, stresses and trauma society grapples with, but a brilliant public education system that builds citizens and individuals with the intellect and skill set to navigate employment, civics and the foundation of self is one of them.

Here’s to silver bullets and a better public education system.

Teachers are not as this Government seems to believe, taxi drivers in an Uber AI world, the relationship between student and teacher is sacrosanct and if resourced and directed by someone with Professor Ings’ indomitable optimism, it can be the source of our success as a country, economy, culture and society.

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