Drop 'middle-class' academic subjects says schools adviser

Mail Online ^ | 6/4/08 | Laura Clark

[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".

[GiovannaNicoletta]

We are definitely well into Apathy and could very well put a man in the White House who will push this entire nation into complete Dependency.

These are scary, and, for those old enough to remember the old America, depressing times we live in.

[socialismisinsidious]

They’re not interested in developing it, just whining about it’s lack of existence.

And taking our money via taxes for development of the alternative energy that they say we need to save the planet (which they never intend to develop so they can keep whining, taking money). Always follow the money.

[socialismisinsidious]

Exactly. This is how to produce a dumb downed controllable people. Ban homeschooling, make property taxes so high that no one can afford private school and then do this.

[Soothesayer]

They take our money just to come up with the dumbest possible alternative fuel ideas. It just goes to show.