Drop 'middle-class' academic subjects

[yongrel]

Drop 'middle-class' academic subjects says schools adviser
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-academic-subjects-says-schools-adviser.html

Children should no longer be taught traditional subjects at school because they are "middle-class" creations, a Government adviser will claim today.

Professor John White, who contributed to a controversial shake-up of the secondary curriculum, believes lessons should instead cover a series of personal skills.


Pupils would no longer study history, geography and science but learn skills such as energy- saving and civic responsibility through projects and themes.


He will outline his theories at a conference today staged by London's Institute of Education - to which he is affiliated - to mark the 20th anniversary of the national curriculum.


Last night, critics attacked his ideas as "deeply corrosive" and condemned the Government for allowing him to advise on a new curriculum.


Professor White will claim ministers are already "moving in the right direction" towards realising his vision of replacing subjects with a series of personal aims for pupils.


But he says they must go further because traditional subjects were invented by the middle classes and are "mere stepping stones to wealth".

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Yes, let's dumb down the entire population even more. Good stuff.

 

[IRO-bot]

Pre-determined work force. You know only how to assemble this machine, we teach you, you need to know nothing else.

YES MASTER!

 

[RSLudlum]

Is this the 'new' type of teacher Obama was talking about??

 

[sratiug]

Unbelievable. Great post Yongrel!!!

 

[WRellim]

Drop 'middle-class' academic subjects says schools adviser
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-academic-subjects-says-schools-adviser.html

Children should no longer be taught traditional subjects at school because they are "middle-class" creations, a Government adviser will claim today.

Professor John White, who contributed to a controversial shake-up of the secondary curriculum, believes lessons should instead cover a series of personal skills.

Pupils would no longer study history, geography and science but learn skills such as energy- saving and civic responsibility through projects and themes.

He will outline his theories at a conference today staged by London's Institute of Education - to which he is affiliated - to mark the 20th anniversary of the national curriculum.

Last night, critics attacked his ideas as "deeply corrosive" and condemned the Government for allowing him to advise on a new curriculum.

Professor White will claim ministers are already "moving in the right direction" towards realising his vision of replacing subjects with a series of personal aims for pupils.

But he says they must go further because traditional subjects were invented by the middle classes and are "mere stepping stones to wealth".

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Yes, let's dumb down the entire population even more. Good stuff.

An of course it is all important to PREVENT the proles from stepping on any of those "stepping-stones to wealth" -- I mean they *might* actually start to attain some wealth... and then what would the elites have as a basis to order them around... who would kiss the feet of the elites.



British idiots.

Hey, boys, Take this f'ing nabob out back and give him a educashun.

 

[Nirvikalpa]

I knew this was coming. What's going to happen in 50 or so years when there are no good doctors available because of no science education in Britain? Is this man mad?

So this man is a professor, which means he probably holds a Doctorate, which means he is getting paid a good amount of money. Maybe he should practice what he preaches.

 

[James Madison]

This is why I've always been opposed to the idea of trade schools here in the US. It just gives the government another way to control us.

 

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

This is why I've always been opposed to the idea of trade schools here in the US. It just gives the government another way to control us.

.....what?

How is it that trade schools - which sponsor hands on work, and actually open the doorway to solid careers - are more controlling than the basic curriculum which forces us to swallow keynesian economics and two-party governance? Frankly, I find myself agreeing with the guy, if not a little contentious about the way he approached the subject. If someone wants a doctorate, they can seek it out on their own time. There's no sense in homogenizing the curriculum all across the board, even statewide, and then turn around and claim to be a society that functions on freedom of choice.

 

[sophocles07]

Pupils would no longer study history, geography and science but learn skills such as energy- saving and civic responsibility through projects and themes.

Professor John White appears to think it time for a seance.

 

[Mongoose470]

It sounds like he proposes a transition from development of logic and critical basic skills and toward behavioral engineering.

This will create an aging body of selected intellectual elites and a younger generation sorely lacking in critical thought to challenge them...

precisely what happened in Nazi Germany, and the USSR. During the peak of the cold war, they had to export students just so they could learn.

Be frightened, very frightened. This is already happening in the good 'ol US of A..