The "Blair generation" will be the best educated in history, the school standards minister, David Miliband, promised yesterday.
My daughter's homework sheet ....
The "Blair generation" will be the best educated in history, the school standards minister, David Miliband, promised yesterday.
There must be more than this, laban?
ReplyDeleteStill, at least it isn't about Germany 1919-45, whatever it might be about.
Frank Field said something rather remarkable on the R4 Sunday Programme this morning
ReplyDeleteHe 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
He really liked it when Josephine called him that privately.
ReplyDeleteSgt Troy, that's fascinating. Im going to write about that on me blog
ReplyDeleteWho knew Napoleon was even involved in the slave trade?
ReplyDeleteEduKation, edukaSHON, edukashun...?
ReplyDeleteAn obvious typo. It should, of course, have read Napoleon Seacole.
ReplyDeleteMore.
This calls for...
ReplyDeleteOh! its the E - I spent ages trying to figure out what was wrong. I'm quite pleased with myself now!
ReplyDeleteAre you having a laugh Laban? A factual error would be much more serious than misspelling a bloody foreign word.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that a factual error would be worse. But you would think a history teacher could spell the Corsican Ogre's name.
ReplyDeleteWhen my kids did GCSE the "history" was the Nazis, inevitably; the American West and the History of Medicine.
ReplyDeleteOf 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
Laban,
ReplyDeleteIn 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.
Incidentally, Laban, your pal Laurie Penny seems to have made it to 'Comment is Free'; that one was inevitable.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that Ed
ReplyDelete"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
The more one looks at nazism and communism, its communism which looks like a perversion. Nazism was just another regime.
ReplyDeleteThats not the message we are supposed to take away of course.
"students seemed to have little interest in anything other than Hitler and Stalin": the phenomenon is referred to as "Men with moustaches".
ReplyDelete@ Martin
ReplyDeleteLaurie Penny - another tedious certain type of underemployed lassie. As a breed, they do the female of the species no favours at all.
Even worse than the typos and general ignorance displayed, they appear - gasp! - to be using...wait for it...Comic Sans.
ReplyDeleteNow that really is unacceptable.