Education
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When I went to school, many years ago, we had 'add ups', 'take aways', and multiplication and division -- none of the politically correct rubbish kids have to endure today. Here is my version of a modern classroom test from the new maths syllabus. Yes, it's a fiction-- but only just a fiction
June 2, 2024
2 mins
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Stepping down as the founding CEO of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, Professor Simon Haines shared these welcoming thoughts with the last draft of incoming scholars. 'It’ll be up to you,' he told them, 'to show your generation how to move beyond a trivialising, conformist, divisive and often extremist mindset'
May 29, 2024
13 mins
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Advocates believe it works not because of its firm evidentiary basis -- it is on very shaky ground empirically -- but because it has garnered so many citations from progressive academics. As the miseducation of Australia's children not only continues but gathers pace, the solution is a return to teacher-directed instruction
May 22, 2024
16 mins
The latest
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The national broadcaster's education unit's greatest success in the cause of miseducation has been promoting fauxborigine hoaxer Bruce Pascoe, but let it not be said the schools service rests on its laurels. There are plenty more topics it is eager to frame in the requisite left perspective
May 19, 2024
33 mins
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The abolition of external exams brought an end to gains in equity and the meritocratic principle that characterised Australian education in the post-war years. The system encouraged students to strive and identified their relative abilities. This should not have been grounds for complaint, yet it was scrapped as an unconscionable burden. The result has been tragic
April 19, 2024
25 mins
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Attempts to quantify teaching in scientific terms, to make it circle around datapoints, effect-sizes and graphs that fly about this way and that, are guaranteed to kill the thing as surely as a stake to an undead heart. Much of what makes a good teacher is innate. All our vanities about how to improve teaching forget that, at day’s end, if the teacher hath not love, she hath nothing
April 10, 2024
22 mins
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One of the arguments advanced by the Australian Law Reform Commission in opposing religious schools' right to control staffing and enrolments is that it’s wrong to discriminate. Did it not occur to the statement's authors that dictating how people worship and observe their faith is discrimination of the most heinous kind?
March 26, 2024
4 mins
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Radical left-wing politics is the default mode for Australia's teachers, who drip terms like ‘decolonisation’, while equating capitalism and the West with injustice, oppression and exploitation. If we ever hope to reverse the decline in student performance, it is the teaching profession that must be re-educated
February 24, 2024
5 mins
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Taken aback by an award-winning Glenelg museum's unqualified admiration for fauxborigine charlatan Bruce Pascoe and his lucrative lies, I took a look at what the top-tier Australian Museum and Galleries Association regards as the correct way to present Aboriginal history and culture. Truth has nothing to do with it
February 2, 2024
10 mins
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Each update of the syllabus brings a greater focus on the evils of the West and the unparalleled achievements of 'indigenous scientists'. Schools bring in trainers to do workshops on indigenous mathematics, gender ideology, anti-racism and dozens of other pseudo-academic fads. Afraid of being labelled racist, transphobic or whatever, woke left conformity tightens its grip on teaching by the day
January 16, 2024
15 mins
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Diversity over quality is now the mantra of all the major cultural producers of the Anglosphere, and the next move is always to tighten the ratchet ever further in the direction of wokery. Far from being crusaders, the Disability Studies nomenklatura are just standing in line for their share of the social justice caviar
December 22, 2023
15 mins
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Given Farah Khairat is a member of Teachers and School Staff for Palestine, it’s no surprise she holds a one-sided view of the Gaza war. What is inexcusable is that like-minded teachers have abrogated the responsibility to serve as their students’ guardians, instead indoctrinating them with the Left's politics and doing so with full union backing, There is no need to wonder why many parents are seeking alternative schools free of bias and cant.
December 1, 2023
5 mins