Posted on 05/06/2011 12:30:01 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Last night I saw the future of education in Britain – and it worked.
The occasion was the launch of Katharine Birbalsingh’s free school in Lambeth, South London. As a local parent I was naturally very interested in this because at the moment round these parts you have two options when your kids turn 11: either you consign them to the dustbin of whichever failing state school you’re unlucky enough to get them into. Or you consign yourself to an old age of misery and penury by forking out for one of the many excellent local private schools.
Having just been in America, I know that in the States (Canada too) parents face very similar problems. And it has nothing to do with poor/ethnic kids finding it harder to learn, or with wicked government underfunding, or any of the other weaselly excuses trotted out by the progressives who’ve held the education systems on both sides of the Atlantic hostage for the last three or four decades. The problem has purely to do with entrenched ideology. In short, the liberal-left will do everything it can to hamstring knowledge-based, academically-rigorous, disciplined liberal arts education because it creates achievers not victims.
I saw these progressive Enemies of Promise at the meeting last night and crikey what a malign bunch they were. You know that awful tortured expression you see on Dracula’s face when he’s ambushed in his coffin and, as the stake is driven into his heart his eyes open in fear and horror while he screams his final scream of abominable evil? Well that’s just the reaction I witnessed last night from the activists who’d turned up en masse to try to sabotage Birbalsingh’s dream academy.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Well said.
Dellingpole has been leading the charge against the fraud of man-made global warming for years now. And now this great article.
He's truly a Brit treasure.
Dellingpole is great.
He frustrates hypocrites and exposes injustice.
You are right, he is a treasure (and to more than the British).
Liberty secured through the enlightenment of public education was the Founders’ worst idea. Aside from slavery, that is, though I wouldn’t call that as essential an idea. They didn’t mean for anything along these lines to transpire, but I can fault them for shortsightedness if I want.
So?....What should we call those people who **willingly** go to work every day and take a paycheck, and then later a pension, for establishing schools that hurt children ? Stupid? Evil? Useful Idiots?
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and [that] he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
-Matthew 18:6
Delingpole aptly titles the oppressors “Progressive vampires.”
They scheme to destroy excellence and potential in all things.
They cripple people in the name of “social justice.”
Would you mind expanding on this statement so I can better understand your perspective? TIA....
Actually, they are victims, they just don’t know they are.
Sadly there is little hope of rescuing the great majority of them, because they clearly believe they are doing the right thing. That misconception was produced by years of expert indoctrination from true believers.
Placemark to read the rest of the article. Thought it might interest you, wintertime.
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