If Gonski is the answer what is the question?

More than ever our future prosperity depends on having well-educated skilled people. We need to find better and, yes, more cost-effective, ways of delivering education. That means exploring options that go beyond the classroom-only model. It means recognising that perhaps there is more to improving educational outcomes than tinkering with funding models.

Gonski was a golden opportunity missed.

A final point

I don't see how the educational establishment can stop the use of the internet to deliver education. Once it's out there on the web savvy students (or savvy parents) will use it. Mathematics is mathematics, biology is biology, learning Mandarin as a second language is the same in every English speaking country.

We can call this process the "Amazonisation" of education. It could be that a few companies become global providers of education in various subjects just as Amazon has become a global supplier of books.

The only question to be asked, really, is this:

Is the educational software which is being developed for the internet going to be made available to all Australian students?

Or is it going to be limited to a privileged few?

Teachers' unions take note!