Saturday
Jan312009
by
Bishop Hill

School for social problems


Chris Woodhead says that schools are giving up on teaching knowledge and are delivering discussion groups in social issues like homosexuality and "fair trade".
Don't I know it. In the day job I sometimes see school textbooks and it's clear to me that a lot of what goes on is propaganda. If I had a penny for every time I've seen the Hockey Stick graph in a school science book....
Reader Comments (2)
And yet they have time for hours of daily Citizenship training.
Not surprised really.
(Not that teaching facts should be the point of education - the point should be to develop the basic skills for life in our society and to give people the tools to learn and enquire for themselves - that's too dangerous though, it leads to people like me ;) )