Napoleon Gove can dictate its terms but the school curriculum is bogus | Simon Jenkins

Like his predecessors, the education secretary must fiddle. Yet his list will mean just as little for life beyond the school gate

Nothing appeals to a politician so much as the chance to rewrite a curriculum. He would not dare operate on a brain tumour or land a jumbo jet or design the Forth Bridge. But let him near a classroom, and the Jupiter complex takes over. He goes berserk. Any fool can teach, and the existing fools are no good at it. Napoleon might lose the battle of Waterloo, but he r...