goldfish-faced cunt said:
there [have] been previous attempts to make science relevant, by linking it to contemporary concerns such as climate change or food scares.
Quel horreur! Heaven forfend that science be "relevant!" And describing climate change as a "contemporary issue" makes it sound like something that's all the rage now (among those trendy lefties, at least), but which everyone will have forgotten about in ten years. Which I find a little over-optimistic.
And that line about his daughter not understanding how history is taught - is he implying his daughter attends a state school? Funnily enough I'm not entirely convinced of that. Who said history has to be taught sequentially, anyway? An in-depth knowledge of ancient Egypt is not a prerequisite for understanding the causes of WWII.
I broadly agree with him that the standards of difficulty of the exams need to be looked at if ever-higher numbers of students are getting top grades without universities and employers finding that each year's intake is better educated than the last, but then nearly everyone says this. I don't see how opening state schools up to effective part-privatisation is going to help here.
And if this is an accurate quote:
"What [students] need is a rooting in the basic scientific principles, Newton's laws of thermodynamics and Boyle's law."
he should be suspended from his post until he has satisfactorily completed GCSE Physics. Or perhaps just summarily executed.