Hasbeen, where have you been during your life? Apparently, wherever you have been, you never failed. You must be a superman and just like Julia Gillard, you must have reached your present position by a poll of flag-followers idiots.

Gillard's contribution to extending education into a useful activity is not so much negligable, as negative.

But I do not quite agree with Phil when he says she has conned principals.

They have willingly gone along with all this rubish, for years.

Maybe not all of them, indeed, our primary school boss certainly didn't, but most of them do.

My child(ren) 'suffer' within the Ed Qld system, and when I say that it is not a sleight aimed at his current six teachers, with only one child now left in the system, all of whom are doing a good job, but a comment on the institution they all work in.

Our school, and all those around us and across the state, are sausage factories of compliance and obedience.

Education is not the central purpose, but a side plate of serendipitous good fortune, and good luck.

Gillard has imposed yet another level of coercion, but has not introduced coercion, which has been the hallmark of schooling for years, if not forever.

But the coercion Gillard has brought takes schools even further from any hope of positive change.

One has to both read Phil Cullen's book, 'Back to Drastics', and understand the political situation in Qld, then and now, to understand how poorly served we are here by the entire edifice of EQ.

I suspect, but do not know from bitter experience, that each state and territory would be very similar, since none is organised differently.

We certainly need an 'education revolution', here in Qld (the smart state) and in all other states/territories, but it will never arrive via a vote seeking politician, or via a teacher union, or via any mob of current school principals, and certainly not via a university that trains students to become a teacher, or the academics who teach therein.

It will only come from angry parents prepared to organise and demolish the current system, instead of shrugging their shoulders and paying school fees to private schools.

So, we are lumbered with a farce, education, that our community knows is deficient, but prefers to pretend otherwise.