Posted on 06/04/2008 3:13:43 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Children should no longer be taught traditional subjects at school because they are "middle-class" creations, a Government adviser will claim today.
Professor John White, who contributed to a controversial shake-up of the secondary curriculum, believes lessons should instead cover a series of personal skills.
Pupils would no longer study history, geography and science but learn skills such as energy- saving and civic responsibility through projects and themes.
He will outline his theories at a conference today staged by London's Institute of Education - to which he is affiliated - to mark the 20th anniversary of the national curriculum.
Last night, critics attacked his ideas as "deeply corrosive" and condemned the Government for allowing him to advise on a new curriculum.
Professor White will claim ministers are already "moving in the right direction" towards realising his vision of replacing subjects with a series of personal aims for pupils.
But he says they must go further because traditional subjects were invented by the middle classes and are "mere stepping stones to wealth".
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England -— it was nice knowing ya.
Ok, c’mon Freepers, stop making this stuff up.
OK, I'll ask. Who's going to develop the alternative energy if there are no scientists?
There is an automatic penalty that the universe applies to ignorance.
/johnny
We may as well drop history because it has been revised beyond recognition.
“Pupils would no longer study history, geography and science”
If you don’t learn history, you will repeat it. Is he saying students should battle like caveman?
This is satire. Right?
You worry too much. Al Gore will take care of it. He does have a Noble Prize you know.
The Ghost of John Dewey walks the Brittish Isles.
We already dropped history long since, except in a few private schools. And it’s not hard to see the results.
Some people just need killin’.
And the leftist march back to the Dark Ages continues apace where the ignorant masses are serfs to the enlightened and educated few.
What's that great quote that describes democracies? Oh yeah:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance,
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency,
from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependency,
from dependence back into bondage.”
Sounds like a couple of nations we all know very well, doesn't it?
Professor John White=Dumbass Supreme
I thought they called the "personal skills" sex education.
There is an alternative high school in Blue Hill, Maine
that has de-emphaized the sciences and mathematics on the grounds that those subjects favor the military-industrial complex. So it has started here as well.
Professor White may have a good point however. With the influx of Muslims, many trained as engineers and scientists, it would not be a bad idea to eliminate all math and science courses for British residents (non-Muslims)and teach them instead, interpersonal skills, such as kowtowing to the new Muslim ruling class. (sarc)
Kipling:
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
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