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'Learning 'ruined by political meddling' in schools. In history, pupils use bin Laden speeches. In science, debates on abortion replace lab work. The Curriculum in state schools has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report today by an influential independent think-tank. It warns of an educational apartheid opening up between the experience of pupils in the state sector and those at independent schools.'Front Page splash, Daily Telegraph, June 11th'A devastating study by the think tank Civitas shows that it is possible to leave school with almost no knowledge of English literature and only the merest acquaintance with British history.' Leader column, Daily Telegraph, June 11th'Education today is a form of child abuse - Yesterday's report on British education from the independent think-tank Civitas represents a dispatch from the battlefield describing a national catastrophe. It is no surprise that pupils learn so little because so much curriculum time has been hijacked for the peddling of propaganda about racism, gender awareness, environmentalism and suchlike.' Max Hastings, Daily Mail, June 12th
Leader column, Daily Telegraph, June 11th
A devastating study by the think tank Civitas shows that it is
possible to leave school with almost no knowledge of English literature and
only the merest acquaintance with British history.
possible to leave school with almost no knowledge of English literature and
only the merest acquaintance with British history.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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An antidote to lazy thinking,
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This review is from: Corruption of the Curriculum (Paperback)
This book is especially interesting because it is published by Civitas, a London think-tank which is normally considered somewhat right-of-centre. Civitas promotes the concept that a healthy civic society can provide education and social services more efficiently than the state; for instance, Civitas supports private charities and co-operatives. Such bodies are not separated from the people they serve by an impenetrable bureaucratic mechanism which serves its own interests first.
Yet most of the chapters of this book were written by the old Living Marxism crew, who now operate under the aegis of Spiked Online, and the Institute of Ideas. These people have abandoned the concept of state socialism, and embraced a libertarian stance. More importantly, they recognise that progressive education is just plain stupid, and that our children are no longer receiving the education they need to understand complex ideas. As the great psychologist Jerome Bruner once said about discovery learning, "it is the most inefficient technique possible for regaining what has been gathered over a long period of time." So politics does indeed make strange bedfellows, or as some people might have it, bedpersons. The contributions to this book vary in quality, but they are all well written, and they all expose the follies of the know-nothings who would indoctrinate our children in post-modern inanities. Well worth the modest cover price.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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the failure of the English education system,
By Tiresias (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Corruption of the Curriculum (Paperback)
My 9 year old daughter is very familiar with the marriage rituals of (non-Christian)religions but when I asked her if she knew what the book of Genesis was, she had no idea. Read this book and weep at the misspent decades of fiddling with the English education system. It's a breathtaking indictment of the dead-end consequences of prioritising 'inclusivity', 'non-competitiveness' and all the other tripe that has accompanied the dumbing down of what was once a terrific system. It used to be possible for ordinary working class kids of this country to take the chance to acquire sufficient education for free to rise beyond their chains. No longer.
6 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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a devastating critique of a politically-correct educational establishment...,
By reno (england) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Corruption of the Curriculum (Paperback)
...or lazy sensationalism with the intellectual rigour of a Daily Mail columnist? Read it and decide for yourselves. Of course, the authors may not approve of such a laissez-faire approach; they are resolute in their certainty of what is right (didactic, knowledge-based schooling) and what is wrong (student-centred, enquiry-based learning).
Sadly, this book will do little to change anybody's opinion. 'Traditionalists' will read to have their prejudices confirmed, 'Progressives' will study to 'know their enemy'. Parents and teachers will sit back and despair at the intellectual poverty of the argument. Furedi is a fine academic and writer, despite his slightly unsettling appetite for publicity, but he cheapens his reputation by allowing his work in print here; the rest of the book makes little attempt at reasoned argument, but merely meanders down a well-worn 'PC-bashing' path. There is a serious argument to be had here. This is not it. The Black Papers are nearly two decades old now but still provide a more substantive case in favour of 'traditionalism' then this.
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