 | Posted by The Editor on Thursday 15 November 2007, 7:42 am Categories: Australia Decides '07, Education Tags: Tags: campaign, children, curriculum, DumbingDown, Education, JohnHoward, launch, teaching |
A primary school teacher responds to John Howard’s claim at the Liberal campaign launch that “Australia does not need an education revolution. Australia needs an education system that teaches its children to read, to write, to spell and to add up.”
| Posted by The Editor on Friday 9 February 2007, 8:02 am Categories: Education, Politics Tags: Tags: AndrewBolt, curriculum, JohnHoward, JulieBishop, KevinDonnelly, relativism, teaching |
Seriously, does a day pass at the moment without our national government attacking Australian education standards, curricula or teachers? Education minister Julie Bishop did it on Wednesday, The Man Of Steel got into it yesterday, and all on the back of a long, hot summer of teacher bashing.
Launching Kevin Donnelly’s book Dumbing Down yesterday, Howard fell back on his well worn themes of “relativism” in English and rampant leftism in the humanities. This man is seriously pining for the good old days of the 50s and is clearly out of touch with anything resembling the real world as it stands in the — gasp — 21st century. The sooner we put Howard in a retirement home (full of white, Anglo residents so it resembles the Australia he feels comfortable with) the sooner this country can stop looking backwards with blinkers on.
Oh, and I couldn’t help but chuckle when I read that Kevin Donnelly was “the thinking man’s Andrew Bolt.” That would’ve got Bolta frothing at the mouth with specks of snot flying out his nose while reading The Age over cornflakes this morning.
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