In the Spectator recently, my old friend Toby Young described a dilemma which all those of us right-wing persuasion must face up to in the end: should you soften your position in order to find some common ground with people whose stupid political ideology you loathe and despise? Or should you stay true to your principles and risk being marginalised as, at best, unreasonable and, at worst, as a fruitcake, a crank, a dangerous extremist? Young was talking in particular about his battles with the hard-left educationalists who were trying to sabotage free schools like the one he helped set up in West London. Some parents urged him to take a more emollient line with his attackers. And for a moment Young was tempted: “Shouldn’t I offer to meet with the school’s opponents, such as the shop steward of the Ealing branch of the NUT [National Union of Teachers], and…
Cultural destruction
In an important article in The Australian, Nick Cater exposes the left-wing zealots in the education system who are corrupting Australia’s education system under the noses of parents and society in general. Through stealth the Left-wing academics and teachers unions have taken over the national curriculum. Instead of focusing on teaching literacy and numeracy, the 699 page Australian Curriculum stresses concepts such as “creating a more ecologically and socially just world through informed action” and “how to promote awareness about how people can reduce their impact on the environment”. They will be asked to ponder “Gaia – the interaction of Earth and its biosphere” All this sounds nice and fluffy until you comprehend the Greens code words embedded in the document. National Curriculum PHYSICS Students in Year 11 are asked to “appreciate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ understanding of physical phenomena”, including the motion of the stars and…
Australian curriculum beyond saving NICK CATER The Australian January 14, 2014 12:00AM “LANGUAGE,” claim the authors of the Australian Curriculum, “enables people to interact effectively.” They then proceed to demonstrate in 238,000 laboured words that this is not necessarily the case. The curriculum is written in the private language of educationalism, which, like Latin in the hands of the medieval clergy, serves to keep the rest of us in our place. The implication is that parents, employers and general citizens don’t know what they’re talking about. Curriculum development is a job for the experts. The first task of the government’s curriculum review panel should be to translate this doorstop of a document into English, eliminate the verbiage and publish it for public discussion. Forget all the stuff about content descriptions, content elaborations and learning continua. Don’t bother telling us that the English language “provides rich and engaging contexts for…
There is no greater example of the culturally corrosive power of the combination of welfarism, social engineering and political correctness than the terrible evil that this deadly trio has wrought on Australia’s Aboriginal population. Billions of taxpayers’ dollars are lavished on keeping many Aboriginals in remote outback locations. There is no industry to employ them so they are given “sit-down” money. Instead of going to work, the days are spent sitting around, talking, playing cards and consuming alcohol. Strictly enforced political correctness has for a long time prevented reporting and exposure of this cultural destruction. After more than thirty years of such madness, this once proud and resourceful race has been largley reduced to a dysfunctional, unemployable, drunken, brutal and broken people. Many of the urban Aboriginals and Mulattos (persons of mixed black and white parentage) have also succumbed to these destructive influences. The articles in the section Aboriginal Affairs give some…