Too many students are leaving school illiterate, innumerate and ignorant of the benefits and strengths of Western civilisation.  Worse still, both major political parties when given the chance have done nothing to address the core issues. There is, however, a simple plan to stop Australian schools' slide down the international rankings

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The 'sociology of education' movement prevalent in our universities reinforces the belief there is no such thing as truth, and that it is impossible to be objective and impartial. Instead of schools and universities being places of learning, they are now vehicles used by the cultural Left to indoctrinate and impose

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Like Alice we have fallen down a rabbit hole where logic, rationality and common sense no longer apply. The comment attributed to Descartes ‘I think therefore I am’ has been engulfed by the Woke generation's ‘I feel therefore I am right’. And then they smash things

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Given the disruptions of the Wuhan virus, few will have noticed that the MySchool website has stopped comparing individual schools' performances. The educrats can't halt Australia's slide in world rankings, but they're smart enough not to let the distraction of a crisis go to waste

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For those who are not ‘woke’ the consequences can be immediate and dramatic. Last year, to cite but one example, the Melbourne Comedy Festival's humourless scolds renamed the Barry Humphries Award because Australia's greatest comedian dared to suggest a man 'transitioning' to a women will always be a man. That was enough to erase a lifetime of laughs

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If those responsible for Australia’s schools managed a business or corporation it would be bankrupt and they would be hauled before the ACCC for misleading advertising and harming their customers. So dismal has been the performance, and so steep the decline, there are grounds for a royal commission

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Unlike the socialist urge to perfect human nature and achieve a utopia on this earth, to be a conservative is to accept the imperfectability of human nature and to grasp that utopian dreams, no matter how appealing, always lead to violence and oppression

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It beggars belief that while the national curriculum includes literally hundreds of references to indigenous culture, history and spirituality there are no more than a handful of references to Christianity and its contributions to the way we live

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However much was spent on the latest purported Gonski outline for fixing Australia's schools, know that it was worse than wasted. Not only do the report's edu-babbling authors not recognise what is wrong, their prescription casts each and every existing ill as virtues

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To argue that chaplains be allowed in government schools is bespeaks no hidden attempt to convert students. To be culturally literate and  fully appreciate what underpins Western civilisation, students need to be familiar with the contribution and significance of Christianity

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