It is unlikely to happen, of course; but if one day the Prime Minister should take me aside and say, “Richards, I would have you design a Rational Curriculum that shall be for All Schools – yea, even unto the Sector hight Independent,” I should spring to the mission with alacrity; and aside from reinstating Carpentry, and making space for Architecture and Astronomy, Botany and Geology, I should institute from Years 5 to 8 a regular lesson called Language.