Education 2015

Insignificant Minority Group Deleted from Databanks

Manufacturers are continually refining their product to satisfy the common needs of the largest market. Information providers question the economic viability of producing for minority groups, but what is regarded as mathematically insignificant is often a sizable ethnic or cultural group.


Poet
Publishing must be made a cheap and easy enough for all cultures to contribute: I want my culture to redefine itself for the future rather than die.


Teacher
I went to an international teacher's conference last week and each cultural group decided that their way was definitely the right way.


Artist
I have a fear that our rich cultural diversity could be replaced by a politically correct but bland common world culture. There is strength in difference.


Politician
Look at the Web, what better example of the dominance of white middle-class, English-speaking technonerds can you think of?


Activist
The curriculum goes multinational, information will be multinational and it will be collected, organised and interpreted by the likes of Murdoch. What space will there be for minorities and dissenting voices?


Teacher
Probably several ÒinsignificantÓ minorities will create their own databank just to keep their own cultural identity...are we speaking about open and flexible distance learning?