EDITORIAL - Simplistic approach on school textbooks

Andrew Holness [SCHS past student], the education minister, will not be surprised if serious people begin to assume that he does not have enough on his plate, hence his emerging role as enforcer of a simplistic morality.

Or worse, there are those who will cast him as anti-intellectual, a stifler of the creative imagination, underestimating the capacities and potential of Jamaica, and proponent of a sterile learning environment.

The more paranoid among us may even have visions of bonfires of books and the blacklisting and banning of texts.

We, of course, do not believe such things about Mr Holness and commend the energy and exuberance he has brought to the job these last six months. We do, however, agree that he is misguided on his declared intent to withdraw some literature texts from schools because they contain expletives. More