A new 197-page curriculum and assessment review commissioned by Labour Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson contains some predictably skewed priorities. The document says it is now essential for children as young as five to be indoctrinated into the climate-cult, made financially aware and to become digitally literate – that latter quality once just meant toddlers being able to count up to 10 on their fingers.
Perhaps most objectionable of all is the report’s desire to make Citizenship lessons compulsory for all pupils (even those who aren’t actually legal citizens). In response, the whole complete non-subject was accurately defined by former Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove as a pathetic “rigour-free potpourri of currently fashionable SW1 preoccupations” – currently fashionable SW1 preoccupations like conspiracy theories, for example.
Conspiring to Fail
Contained under the misleading general heading of teaching children ‘Media Literacy’ (most kids already know how to turn on a TV, thanks Bridget), the document gives away what it really means by the term ‘conspiracy theory’ in the following paragraph:
Specifically, the report targets “climate change denial” and “anti-vaccine campaigns”. Yet it also seeks to debunk “deepfake content of political figures” and “wider misrepresentation of current or historical events”. Those latter two topics may actually be well worth teaching about: educators could show pupils how the BBC deliberately deepfaked Donald Trump into falsely appearing to call for a violent revolution in Washington, or show them that 2023 episode of Doctor Who in which Sir Isaac Newton mysteriously became a black
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To see evidence of how effective the whole eco propaganda has been in giving children something that looks like depressive mental illness and set their thinking on a doom loop, one can do no better than to look at their poems, drawings, and short essays on this whole subject that have been reproduced and put on display at the bandstand at Eastbourne.
Too much teaching what to think, not enough teaching how to think.
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
J. Bronowski (1906-1974)
At that time the difference between a pupil (taught) and a student (guided, but more independent) was widely known. There is no freedom without discipline and pupils need to know the rules before they can break them. They should not waste their time on concepts before they can read, write and calculate with accomplishment.
Simply underlines how important it is to talk to your kids about what they are being fed in certain subjects and completing the picture by explaining the parts the schools leave out.
Why is this even on the curriculum? Maths, English, Science, Language, etc should leave no room for this (political) rubbish.
If you have a national curriculum decided by the powers that be, it will end up reflecting whatever it is that those powers deem important unless you place some hard to shift legal or constitutional limitations on them – tricky when Parliament is sovereign
wider misrepresentation of … historical events
This is interesting because one of the many oddities about the contemporary madleft is its repudiation of its historical brothers-in-arms. For example Hitler was a socialist, and Mussolini was a Marxist. But both are defined as “far-right”.
As Hitler himself wrote (I’ve translated that from Mein Kampf not that long ago): Red was chosed as colour for posters of the NSDAP (in Munich) specifically to provoke “the left.”
There used to be a monument outside the offices of the German Labour front with a quote from Hitler on the pedestal:
“Ich bin sozialist, weil es mir unverständlich erscheint, eine maschine mit sorgfalt zu pflegen und zu behandeln, aber den edelsten vertreter der arbeit, den menschen selbst, verkommen zu lassen.”
Google translates this as:
I am a socialist because it seems incomprehensible to me to maintain and treat a machine with care, but to let the noblest representative of work, the person himself, deteriorate.
Now deleted Wikimedia photo of Hitler’s monument outside the German LABOUR FRONT offices.
Yet another reason to justify withdrawing support for Wikimedia. Can’t see any comments from those claiming the Nazis were hard right. How odd.
Presume war machinery was an exception to that rule.
Is there an objective and definitive explanation of the difference between a theory and a conspiracy theory? Where can this be located, I wonder?
Well a conspiracy theory is something the far left do not like because it paints them in a bad light but yet in the end it is shown to be true. It came up today on GB News when the nice lady fro Republicans UK recounted that being interviewed on BBC local radio the Far Left interviewer insisted the Russia Hoax was a conspiracy theory and not the proven fact that it is now with all the evidence of it being a Shrillary driven FBI faciliated smear job.
Thank you. So a conspiracy theory is a theory that does not concur with the desired narrative. Whoever would have guessed?
History allied to experience ie recently covid, teaches that around 20% of us are “slow thinkers” ie not of a herd mentality.
It is from this group that cause all Empires to fall.
This will be the case re this latest ideological attempt at indoctrination.
It is a fact that plenty of 5 year old have that capacity – far more so than their teachers – most of whom are left wing and read the Guardian as though it were the font of all truth.
When I think about it, the idea that some group of people get to decide what every child in this country should be learning, and that decision is enforced on parents and educators, is appalling. What kind of free society can we possibly have?
Until they reach the age maturity, children will have to cope with the fact that they’re not free to make their own decisions about a great many things in life and from the perspective of child, it makes preciously little difference if there’s one adult dictator who decides what the proper system of writing is and that geometrical bodies c² = a² + b² applies to have to be studied or thenthousand such dictators each preferring their own system of writing and their own kind of geometry.
But for society at a large, it makes sense when children are taught a predictable body of knowledge at school instead of each and everbody who has to interact with the now adult children first having to discover that – unfortunately – they’re well versed in a variant of Linear-A some genius head teacher believed to be just the right way to encode the dialect spoken in the area of the country where he was born but have never heard of the Roman alphabet and that the Indian concept of zero as a number is alien to them while they can use Baylonian cuneiform numerals in their sleep.
I don’t care about society at large, I care about myself and my immediate family, though as a hopefully not-evil person I try not to cause direct harm to others in the pursuit of my own well-being.
This is a misinterpretation of what I wrote and I dare say you know that yourself.
I know no such thing.
“But for society at a large, it makes sense when children are taught a predictable body of knowledge at school…”
You may or may not be right (and in reality regardless of the educational system in existence I suspect that the “body of knowledge” would be a lot more predictable than you suggest) but I don’t recognise the good of society at large (whoever decides that) as any argument for forcing me to have my children taught according to some set of things decided by some other group of people where I have no choice in the matter.
Conspiracy facts. Can add evolution, the moon landings, 9-11 and other ‘facts’ to the list. Virology is not a science. Neither is Relativity nor Evolution. Nuclear material was found in great quantity around the towers.
Good to see the brainwashing of minds continues. Zero critical thinking or reality. Memorise the junk, vomit back on demand, go to Uni, change your gender, wave Muslim Jihad flags, hate Christians and whites, if by bad luck you have children, repeat the process….
And importantly, like good sheeple, obey the fake news and little fascists in government, run it appears, by Muzzies including MuzzieMahmoud the supposed ‘Home Sec’…..nice. No decline here of course. That is just a con theory as well. Thriving democracy, freedom, ‘values’ blah blah blah
The left seems very aligned with Islam.
Yes.
They are both totalitarian ideologies.
The left simultaneously admires and fears Islam for its ruthlessness.
For Islam, the left are the useful idiots who help them to power.
Ultimately, however, this alliance comes to an end when Islam wins and the leftists end up standing in front of the firing squads (see Iran 1979). But the left is too stupid to realize this, besides, as a fundamentally nihilistic ideology most of them have a secret death wish anyway.
Globalism and corporatism too. All three hate free speech and liberty.