Lacunae

It's interesting that, when you dig into educational reforms in microstates like Atlantis, you find little insulated bubbles of time which everyone knows about but that nobody knows. I keep finding references to 1973, for example, as a watershed year. But what water was shed? We all know about the establishment of the Institute of Education as a successor to the old Teachers' Training College (and its merger with other arcane departments), but what exactly went on behind closed doors along the corridors of power?

Many things happened in 1973. Everyone says that important things happened that year. The Gnome said that, in 1972, the Promised Land was not in sight, but the Atlanteans had come to believe that they understood the formula for success. But the Gnome's voice is now silent and his eyes are dim and nobody is saying what exactly they did next, although we know what was done.

This is a problem of history. We need to dig deeper, we need to ask the last voices before they too go silent. Or those voices will only wake us when we drown.