Indeed. Money won't solve it. The crisis in education is cultural. It's profound, deep, and I think it will end us more surely than climate change, war or disea

Indeed. Money won't solve it. The crisis in education is cultural. It's profound, deep, and I think it will end us more surely than climate change, war or disease. We're heading toward an inability to replicate our own essential cultural DNA, whether in institutions or in common values. We've become anti-intellectual, iconoclastic, lazy and idolatrous - and sadly one cause of this is technology and our misplaced belief in systems rather than human values - in certainty rather than toil. "Competence" is a jolly complex thing. It's more than the ability to pull levers and operate systems that someone else put in place. It involves transcendent thinking, leadership and confidence, but also duty, patience, loyalty, love and dozens of other qualities we now think we "are better than".