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Article: A bad idea, for 854 reasons.
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- September 1, 2001
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IN ANY CONTEST between ideology and common sense, put your money every time on a victory for ideology. From Papua New Guinea comes news of the latest example of a fad running wild and roughshod over good sense, over what is in the public interest, and over what is possible.
Mary-Louise O'Callaghan, observant reporter of trouble in the South Pacific, tells us (Australian, 31st July) that Professor John Waiko, Papua New Guinea's Minister for Education, has begun a "radical reform". He certainly has. He intends to make "every one" of Papua New Guinea's indigenous languages an official language of education. Waiko is quoted: "We are making vernacular education the ...