Comments on: The banking crisis ends the myth that the private sector is better http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/10/the-banking-crisis-ends-the-myth-that-the-private-sector-is-better/ Pontydysgu - Educational Research Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:43:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pat Parslow http://www.pontydysgu.org/2008/10/the-banking-crisis-ends-the-myth-that-the-private-sector-is-better/comment-page-1/#comment-10172 Pat Parslow Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:41:42 +0000 http://www.pontydysgu.org/?p=738#comment-10172 To be fair, these sums of money are being borrowed (where from, given the global nature of the crisis, I am not at all clear!) so to spend it on education would have also required borrowing. I have a concern about reports of jobless bankers re-training to become teachers - are these the sort of people we want teaching impressionable minds? However, I tend to agree that the long term may be looking better; anything which helps shift the entrenched political nonsense we have had for the last 2 decades must have a silver lining. To be fair, these sums of money are being borrowed (where from, given the global nature of the crisis, I am not at all clear!) so to spend it on education would have also required borrowing.

I have a concern about reports of jobless bankers re-training to become teachers – are these the sort of people we want teaching impressionable minds?

However, I tend to agree that the long term may be looking better; anything which helps shift the entrenched political nonsense we have had for the last 2 decades must have a silver lining.

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