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the first sign of a more sceptical scutiny of a Curricukum for Excellence have beem emerging lately. Writing in the TESS, Prof Lindsay Paterson,  criticieses it as vague to the point of confusion. He makes the point that,

“Sound learning is always engaging with what has gone before, and with what other people are doing now, and it often requires that we defer our own gratification.”

 He goes on to say,

 ”..A Curriculum for Excellence is confused about the past, tacitly presuming to demonstrate that no previous generation has thought up goals such as the four which it ritualistically proclaims at every turn. …A curricular reform that threatens to destroy an inheritance by ignoring it, venerates autonomy and spontaneity above all else and seeks to allure with the promise that learning ought to be good fun is, no doubt, reflecting the spirit of the times.”