Can international schools learn from Australia’s Indigenous People’s approaches to land management?

Author: Paul Ellmes

Short termism isn’t seen as the poor choice anymore, such is the zeitgeist. Many international schools seem to think no longer than a teacher’s contract, but their market a child’s life for 11 years. The aborigines thought in decades, and through their use of fire for land management, millennia. International schools, burnt by Covid-19 should seize the opportunity to adopt the longer view, of ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’.