The new political mood may yet lead to changes in England's stupidly top-down schools system, and finally avenge the Napoleonic ways of Michael Gove and many of his Labour predecessors.
He tells us we must abandon the notion that society can be ordered by government from the top down – schooling and health care must be privatised, for example, so that better methods emerge in a process of innovation.
Top down, pushing buttons".
Top, down, starting with hair.
The board surely knew what it was getting when it appointed this prickly 72-year-old maestro: a top-down, old-school conductor, undeniably accomplished, technically incomparable yet prone to willful, micromanaged performances.
Ramon Arratia, European sustainability director at Interface, said the European commission, by imposing limits on CO2 emissions from new cars, had shown how "top-down, old-school regulation" can allow innovative new technologies, such as regenerative brakes, to move from the fringes to influence a market.
The top-down, public school influence of STEM overlaps with the bottom-up approach of the DIY maker faire in the community space that is represented by the library.
Who would have thought that the hunches of geeks in Silicon Valley about schooling would be imposed as top-down mandates on schools across our diverse nation?
Top-down priorities encourage school leaders who believe in OFSTED's illusions, when they should be responding to the realities faced by those teaching on the frontline.
(Even though the Legislature routinely tramples over local governments with other top-down dictums, including school policies).
