Sunday, February 21, 2010

Best Educated Generation In History ...

The "Blair generation" will be the best educated in history, the school standards minister, David Miliband, promised yesterday.


My daughter's homework sheet ....

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19 comments:

Sgt Troy said...

There must be more than this, laban?

Still, at least it isn't about Germany 1919-45, whatever it might be about.

10:41 am
Sgt Troy said...

Frank Field said something rather remarkable on the R4 Sunday Programme this morning

He said that only by having read the King James Bible, imbibed its rich language, appreciated its cultural and historical significance - could one really be a citizen of this country

Hmmmm

11:05 am
Dave H said...

He really liked it when Josephine called him that privately.

11:28 am
Ed West said...

Sgt Troy, that's fascinating. Im going to write about that on me blog

12:58 pm
DJ said...

Who knew Napoleon was even involved in the slave trade?

1:05 pm
Foxy Brown said...

EduKation, edukaSHON, edukashun...?

2:32 pm
Anonymous said...

An obvious typo. It should, of course, have read Napoleon Seacole.

More.

3:24 pm
JuliaM said...

This calls for...

5:25 pm
BNP man said...

Oh! its the E - I spent ages trying to figure out what was wrong. I'm quite pleased with myself now!

6:37 pm
Napoleon the Humerus said...

Are you having a laugh Laban? A factual error would be much more serious than misspelling a bloody foreign word.

11:10 pm
Laban said...

It's true that a factual error would be worse. But you would think a history teacher could spell the Corsican Ogre's name.

11:35 pm
Sgt Troy said...

When my kids did GCSE the "history" was the Nazis, inevitably; the American West and the History of Medicine.

Of our history naturally was there none. I was struck by the thin quality of the text books that they were supplied with, not much better than a comic. When one was struggling with an assignment, and having perused the miserable resources with which task was supposed to be undertaken, I dashed something off from the top of my head.

There was a suggestion that the younger daughter do history at A-level at a former Grammar and we went to an open day. What was on display seemed to concentrate pretty well exclusively on slavery, racism and the Holocaust - with an apparent purpose to turn indigenous kids into self-loathing basket cases.

My advice was, just don't bother - let's go home

8:12 am
Martin said...

Laban,

In his 'Life of Nelson', Southey consistently referred to NB as Napoleone Buonaparte. No Mao Zedong nonsense for him.

And in 'The Isles', that whopper of a book from 2000, Norman Davies, no screaming rightwinger by any manner of means, complains about how students seemed to have little interest in anything other than Hitler and Stalin.

9:49 am
Martin said...

Incidentally, Laban, your pal Laurie Penny seems to have made it to 'Comment is Free'; that one was inevitable.

10:23 am
Sgt Troy said...

Thanks for that Ed

"Incidentally thanks to Sgt Troy on Laban Tall’s blog for pointing it out"

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100026876/frank-field-you-cant-understand-england-without-reading-the-king-james-bible/

Indeed the words of Tyndale and the KJ shaped our language and our very thought processes;

"let there be light", "the powers that be", "my brother's keeper", "filthy lucre", "fight the good fight", "flowing with milk and honey", "the apple of his eye", "a man after his own heart", "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak", "ye of little faith", "ear drink and be merry", "broken-hearted", "stumbling-bock", "clear-eyed"

This is worth a look - the calculated educational demoralisation of the indigenous working class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU6uvKixSro&NR=1

Presenter points out that he has sat through endless multi-culti school assemblies and that there has been much made of black role models - Nelson Mendela etc, but the only white person mentioned is Adolf Hitler!

"Lord, open the King of England's eyes." - Tyndale's last words

Same could be said to bloody liberals

12:23 pm
Anonymous said...

The more one looks at nazism and communism, its communism which looks like a perversion. Nazism was just another regime.

Thats not the message we are supposed to take away of course.

12:36 pm
dearieme said...

"students seemed to have little interest in anything other than Hitler and Stalin": the phenomenon is referred to as "Men with moustaches".

1:03 pm
Foxy Brown said...

@ Martin

Laurie Penny - another tedious certain type of underemployed lassie. As a breed, they do the female of the species no favours at all.

6:48 pm
Weekend Yachtsman said...

Even worse than the typos and general ignorance displayed, they appear - gasp! - to be using...wait for it...Comic Sans.

Now that really is unacceptable.

12:39 pm

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