Dear Kevin,

It is now a little over a year since this country swept you into office on the back of 12 shameful but prosperous years under Howard.  You have offered and fulfilled your promises honourably, yet I can’t help to feel, conservatively.  When you campaigned on an Education Revolution, you surely weren’t referring to incremental baby steps for a 20 year revamp of the education system?  I was rather more hoping that the ‘revolution’ part of your catch phrase meant we were in for a rollercoaster overhaul of an education system in dire need.  I’m quite sure that many people who saw the degredation of our schools throughout the Howard years expected the same.  The mandate is there Mr. Rudd and you would be crazy not to act on it because after the next election cycle, people may not be so interested anymore.

So the world’s been thrown into a bit of a global recession since then and you may not be so keen to spend the little money you now realise you have.  I say, whip out the credit card and build us 21st century infrastructure, sideline the blame game and get spending!  Build hospitals and roads… but most importantly build public schools and accessible universities that are at the forefront of world education.  No century old blackboards and crumbling walls, but modern class rooms with technology embedded into the learning process, making Australian students the best trained in the world.  Nothing goes as far towards nation building as a world class public education system and you were given the mandate for an education revolution Mr. Rudd, please don’t pass it up.

Politics australia, education, education revolution, kevin rudd, labor, Politics