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...retirement but is prevented from doing so by his henchmen. The self-interest of this handful of people has to be addressed to achieve a change of leadership. If the culture of corruption is not addressed, no future government will bring the change that this lovely country deserves. Tjarda Barratt, ELNORA, ALTA...
...bureaucrats and military officers in the world. The interests of this crony class - not just Mugabe himself - will have to be addressed to achieve any sort of regime change. And once that happens, the culture of corruption and the self-serving cynicism of politicians will have to go. Tjarda Barratt, Elnora, Canada...
...luxurious retirement but is prevented from doing so by his henchmen. The self-interest of this handful of people has to be addressed to achieve a change of leadership. If the culture of corruption is not addressed, no future government will bring the change this lovely country deserves. Tjarda Barratt, Elnora, Canada...
...John Barratt-Peacock has looked more closely than any other Australian into why parents choose homeschooling. Religion (or "world view") plays a role as often as not, says the former teacher, though its influence isn't straightforward. He tells of two fathers who each withdrew their daughter from the same Year 4 class in northern Tasmania: one felt too much time was being wasted on Easter and Christmas frippery; the other objected to the humanistic curriculum, "so that teacher was damned either way." Some parents act on the view that the drudgery of school dulls children's desire to learn...
...Homeschooling will never be the norm, but it's a pointer to the future of organized learning, argues researcher Barratt-Peacock. The days when the great storerooms of information were the university libraries are fading. The Internet has brought something approaching the totality of mankind's knowledge into the home, dismantling the barriers that limited people's choices about where and what they could study. In the new global village, Barratt-Peacock wonders, how long before a teenager in Christchurch, working from the computer in his bedroom, can attain a Harvard degree? "The idea of learning only in a large...