I went to a good restaurant last night (it was superb, in fact). But a plain meat 'n' two veg with Bisto bloke would have hated all those spicy, porky tapas, olives and stuffed guindillas. We use good in whatever context we happen to find ourself in. I can't negotiate "good" with yer Bisto man, but we can negotiate "good" when we're talking about what would be a good curriculum in political education: what to put in, what to leave out, how to do the monitoring and get the feedback, who should be involved, how to relate it to the age and ability of the students, how to avoid bias and proselytising, how to assess our efforts, get advice from outside...It's hard work but it's no different from history or biology. We get round the table and thrash it out. Then we can can confidently say that it's as good as we can make it. Good means we've given it our honest and best shot. I'm not going to be scrapping the word "good" or be cynical every time I see it used because I don't think I can apply it to an honest human endeavour which is bound to be imperfect.