Part of it is that tech moves so fast that education hasnt had a chance to catch up, and part of it is because the whole system is a BUSINESS, and not a very flexible one at that. It takes a lot of creative thinking to come up with an entirely new system and then you have to get everyone on board. Poor teachers are so dead tired just doing what they can to earn a living and are pretty powerless to change anything.

You've had such a life, I love hearing your stories. I reckon the trades are where unis are totally redundant, but they haven't got as much funding here as tertiary ed does, yet, if you do teritary ed here you are 150,000 grand BEHIND someone who's done a trade/apprentinceship - isn't that crazy!