Over recent weeks, the Prime Minister and his Minister for Education, Julie Bishop, have been making a series of increasingly bizarre pronouncements on education.
He's talked about what he calls 'political correctness' among schoolteachers.
And we know Howard has odd views on history and geography.
The teaching of these subjects ain't what it used to be in his day, he's been heard to say.
And he wasn't auditioning for a part in a Canberra version of the 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch either.
More recently he and the lovely Julie have talked about the concept of performance pay for teachers and the automatic expulsion of school bullies.
There's a hidden wedge in every one, of course.
Best thing is to ignore the lot.
The real issue is senior politicians making deliberately ill-informed statements that either incite, or at least pander to, prejudice against public education.
And they do that at their peril.
Parents are voters, too.
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