Back when I was a schoolboy, it was a standing joke amongst pupils that, if you were ever stuck in an RE test, you had at least a 50% chance of getting a mark if you simply wrote in the all-purpose words, “Because Jesus was the Light of the World” as an answer. “Truly, it is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a schoolboy to fail his RE exam,” we claimed Jesus had once taught his own private learning-circle in Mark 10:25. As one classmate still got his GCSE passing grade in the subject even after answering that the letters mockingly placed by the Romans above Christ on his cross were RNLI rather than INRI, I suspect this may actually have been true.
So much for RE exams: but should school, college and university papers in other subjects be made equally as foolproof and impossible to fail? As September begins and students of all ages return to their classrooms, a new campaign to do just this seems to be afoot, under the predictable modish rubric of ‘decolonisation’.
Untested Ideas
In June, whilst GCSE, A-level and degree-sitting season got into full swing, the media gave wide and disapproving publicity to a paper published the previous December in the pedagogical journal Trends in Higher Education.
Co-authored by Joanne Daniella Lalujan, then an MSc student at the LSE, and Dr. Zahidul Islam Pranjol, of the University of Sussex, the
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All part of the cultural Marxist dumbing down of each successive generation as predicted by Yuri Bezmenov.
When those students emerge onto the job market, they will find they won’t be able to personalise their interview which they cannot fail.
Businesses will be forced to employ people who are not up to the job. I suppose the super rich and powerful will still be able to access competently made/provided goods and services, up to a point, but I wonder if they have thought this through – they are going to have to drive over bridges and ride in aeroplanes, the same ones that other people use, so this idiocy has to stop somewhere or else there will be carnage.
This is a terrible way of introducing kids to the real world where the answer is not selected from one of a list. Perhaps it fits them for a career in public sector administration where there is no real cost other than to taxpayers.
They will simply not get on in any wealth generating enterprise where you have to put in effort backed by skill and knowledge.
This is yet more evidence that our increasingly anti-white universities have entered an intellectual New Dark Age. Unfortunately for the rest of us, and as the Slovenian political philosopher Samo Burja points out, intellectual dark ages are always the prelude to social and technological dark ages.
Another headline of lunacy in Clown world
Leave the Left out of Education
All perfectly logical and in keeping with the direction of travel. When will the normies wake up to the fact that this is where “anti-racism” leads?
“Anti-racism”, of course, being madleft code for anti-whitism.
More or less. Some useful idiots probably hate themselves but for others it’s just a useful tool to divide and conquer. Sadly most people still buy into “anti racism” as a Good Thing. I’m not “pro racism” in so far as I believe in equal protection of the law. and treating people as the individuals they are, but that’s not what is now being pushed.