[paxiongmap]

"The least bad thing that Ofcom and the Government could do is to quietly let the matter drop whilst focusing on education."

This generalises very well for all Government. Shame we're a couple of generations into education being about producing pliant workers over independent, thinking human beings.

[potato3732842]

>This generalises very well for all Government.

The government shouldn't be dropping things. It should have the power to pick those things up in the first place.

It's like a fishing stop. Even if you get off with a warning the whole interaction just shouldn't have happened.

[alt227]

> education being about producing pliant workers over independent, thinking human beings.

You cant have things like computers and smart phones if you dont have millions of pliant workers mass producing them for you. If you want the technological world that we live in to be possible then you should accept that it requires this concept. If everybody is a creative independant free thinking individual, then nobody is a worker drone in a factory churning out phones, laptops, or the materials and components that go into them.

[EarlKing]

Generations of wave solder machines and pick-and-place machines beg to differ...

[alt227]

Id love to see a wave solder machine mine some cobalt...

[coolKid721]

Mass education was formed to destroy local cultures and languages in the prussian empire and revolutionary french to make sure people were compliant and wouldn't revolt against the state's control, it has never had anything to do with making people thinkers. This is the stated purpose, and always has been.