The 2nd leap would be to abolish most of traditional learning – public schools in this country deliver students that are in no way ready to compete with students from abroad – there are several reasons for that, one of them ‘politics’, so I’m not going there – nor am I fingerpointing or blaming anyone: it’s just the observation – denying it would only be cruel and stalling progress.

As, my suggestion would be to teach English only, with say Chinese as a second language, maybe 2 or 3 other topics and that would be it – next to that, every student gets a laptop on which to learn other topics, but in a playfull, interactive way, using the internet to learn about the rest of the world: art, technology, engineering etc. etc.

Sure, there have to be exams, but they will be in a more stimulating way than we had to endure – certain topics will not be popular: how much did you enjoy chemistry, for instance?

The result will be students that know how to use technology: boys will be encouraged to explore it more (to talk in stereotypes), girls will use it to discover their interests and specialise on those.

Based on a principle of finding out what you enjoy, discovering related stuff and exploring, a generation will be created that is curious. Not indifferent because they had to learn the ‘wrong stuff the wrong way’.

Curiosity leads to innovation and inventions. If not, then at least that new generation knows how to survive in a high-tech world.