We are now living with the full benefits of Progressive education

The writing's on the wall for our failing education system. But can anyone read it?

Michael Gove's education reforms haven't come a moment too soon, says Allison Pearson.

The UK and the USA are doomed by generations of innumeracy and illiteracy. What will become of the millions of school dropouts that now infect the workforce. Very sad and very dangerous when a large part of society cannot understand the ramifications of what they vote for or against. At that point the only thing of interest to the electorate is what's in it for me in the short term.

The lack of even the most basic understanding of economics forces people into conspiracy theories. Where there's a vacuum in knowledge the mind fills the void with mysticism and conjures demons.