Shaping the Future

There's a book I've had on my shelves for a while; its title is 'Shaping the Future of Atlantis' (well, not actually, but you probably can do the translation). It's all about how educators are trying to reform a whole country, one that lies from sea to shining sea (or more prosaically, straddles two oceans). It's all very futuristic and full of shiny ideas.

The problem is that the findings are pretty indeterminate. After you subtract the propaganda, we still don't know what we've done. Nobody wants to do the big research just in case the unnamed Ministry cracks down on the researchers (or worse, ignores them totally). And that is what forty years of independence does for independent learning.