Way back in 1939, J Abner Peddiwell used the metaphor of the ice-age and stone-age to comment on education in his famous satire Sabre Tooth Curriculum. Probably now it’s time to flip the script, shed off the satire and don a new metaphor – ‘education in the life and times of COVID’ – where not just the tools, but the very tool room has changed!
When it became clear that it was no longer advisable or safe to go to school, when confinement became the new normal, and quarantine was not only meant for the sick but…
