Canada’s postpandemic education must not aim to keep our kids ‘safe'
Special to The Globe and MailIrvin Studin is President of the Institute for 21st Century Questions, and editor-in-chief and publisher of Global Brief Magazine.
The Canada pivoting out of the quarantine will be poorer, more anxious and more surrounded by continental and global instability than at any time since the Second World War. We have a quasi-closed border with the United States – our primary economic partner and a military ally – which, in judgment, will not necessarily wish or otherwise be able to defend us in all scenarios. In population terms, the countries of which we’ve made enemies are twice as great as our allies.
So the national posture on education this fall must be one of total excellence, recognizing that other world nations with which we will be competing – on friendly or unfriendly terms – will be coming out of the gates hard, with purpose, to win the brain games of this young century.
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