Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:11:51 +0000
From: Garry Ashton-Coulton <garryac-AT-ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Warhol/sci-fi/turnips/nat curric


The national curric' never fails to amuse me, my wife is a teacher at 
a special needs school where many of the children in her charge have 
little concept of social interaction or indeed language...yet still 
the inspectors insist that the lessons be in line with the national  
curric'.  
Its seems that the teachers of our country are being straightjacketed 
by the NC.
The method has overtaken the content and it is perhaps left up to the 
individual teacher to shoehorn, the needs of the individual pupil into 
the NC frame work. My wife tells me however that the phrase - this 
child is working towards the national curriculum - covers a multitude 
of sins.

Re Baudrillard

Unfortunatly my philosophy degree stopped somewhere around Macintyre 
and Kripke...with a good dose of the usual ancients fro good 
measure....completly bypassing Baudrillard et al.

my interest was fired when I was given a book to 
review,....'Baudrillard Made Simple'.....
yes I know ...stop tittering...

could any kind person point me in the direction of some releveant 
URL's, or some slightly more appropriate reading ?

Cheers

Garry Ashton-Coulton
garryac-AT-ndirect.co.uk