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Bruce Springsteen agrees with me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtGb5MPCMlg

I have two school aged children children and these days for spare cash I am also a sessional tafe and vcal teacher (year 11's and 12's)..so not a great guess from you. I never said "i never learnt that at school" - I said 'I dont use what i learnt in school"....geez people are selective.

I think you are getting hung up on the word 'renaissance man'....lets call it something else.... I am not the one missing the point

Dude - the point is we do need maths geeks.....just not most people. Enought o be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide...anything more refer to calculator, iphone, nerd....(i like nerds)

You are playing into my hands...why does the average joe need to know about fast fourier transforms? leave that to the maths geeks at phd level. Everyone needs to know about money and various other things to help you survive.

Dont get me wrong - i love maths and i think maths can explain just about everything....i just reckon that 95 pct of the maths i use I knew by Year 8.

But see HiEq this is exactly the midset that needs changing. This is exactly the stuff that needs to be in the education system. I want my kids to learn a subject called "money' - not algebra! Sure we need some maths geeks but how many times do we hear people say I never use the stuff i learnt...

Because im involved in mining and shipping and i see reports on trends going into the next 20-30 years. Billions of dollars of invesntment moving forward hinge in china and changinges in power technology. Why invest billions in mines and ships if coal and iron ore are on the way out? You wouldnt...

You may work in one for a while but the skills are so practicle that you benefit financial anyway. Ways to save one or 2 million bucks easily over a standard middle class lifetime 1. Never buy a new car 2. Send your kids to a public school 3. Learn how to build your dream house yourself...

@high equity I feel the same way about my experience in shipping but you know what things change. Dont be prescious about what you know and what you think the world needs. Power is changing more rapidly than just about any other industry. You may find your skils become redundant quicker than...

@alexlee So a degree in horticulture A higher degree in building or plumbing A higher degree in computers or social newtowrking are all things people dont pay you for? Im not talking about travelling... then there is the elective over say 6 years - aged care, nursing, yad ayada...

Can i also talk about the HIP FACTOR here. S0o many smart young people hate the idea of university agter 13 ardous years at high school. Many are so jaded and hate the choices of land stereotypical vocations ahead of them that they take 1 or 2 years off to have fun doing many of the things my...

@yv berliner education, retail (two of australia's biggest industries), journalism, the arts all moving so quickly....there are many others - its not a myth we just havent caught up yet. Already the nature of work has changed and the percentage of people with jobs and vocations for life has...

I am deadly serious whats the point being a speciallist when technology is changing / moving the goalposts so fast? Building a house / knowing trades is not just about a vocation - its a chance to learn skills that will save you hundreds of thousands of dollars over a lifetime, as...

You can succeed without spelling...im proof. English not overly necessary we have spellcheck. See its a revolution - out with the old in with the new.

Who wants to back me??? What about a real school of hard knocks or atleast university of the renaissance man. Here me out. On the wires today research stating that the education system as we know it is pretty much stuffed. Leading researcher reckons all Australian universities will be...