Aboriginal content will keep kids at school

The Age

SEAN GORMAN November 2, 2009

If you go into any country town or remote area you will find Aboriginal people. On pension day you don't need to look too hard to find some of them playing cards under a tree, or in a town's pub playing darts. Some people believe the dual influences of idleness and passive welfare mean that many indigenous lives are not being fully realised. But if you look closer at both these activities, they involve social maintenance (ie maintaining relationships) and complex mathematical problems. I have often stood in awe of the calculator-like sharpness of indigenous people when playing darts and chalking their score on the board. To do this requires an education.

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