Could Markdown go to School?

The other day I was complimented, albeit in a jokey way, on the neat organisation of a word document I had produced. I said nothing, I don’t have a working copy of word on my computer. I do have access, via glow, to the online version but I dislike browser based apps of this sort. I have never been a big fan or power user of word anyway. My docx was not created with word but with TextMate, written in markdown. & converted with pandoc. It occurred to me that it is a lot simpler to make a reasonable structured document with markdown than most other applications. Being limited to headings of different levels, paragraphs, lists and a few more formatting features could be seen as a good thing. Might it be easier, in some alternative universe, for children to learn the basics of creating an organised document before opening word or other software behemoth. I wrote the above yesterday, in drafts in Markdown. Today I read that Markdown had been added to Onedrive for iPhone. I knew Onedrive in…