Great post! I highly recommend John Abbott's book. It's an interesting read and very relevant today. I do a lot of professional development with teachers, and I start each session with the question, "What is the point of school?" Without exception, the overwhelming response is 'to empower students to change the world!' No, it's not. We need to understand the world before we can/should change it. For reasons I don't really understand, the new cohort of teachers entering the profession lack any creative spark. There doesn't seem to be a sense of curiosity about the world anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old! The result is this religious approach to education, where everyone believes the same ideology and conducts the same rituals. There's no variety. I feel as old as a dinosaur, and I'm only in my early 40s.
I love that you ended your post talking about pronouns - it made me chuckle. When I see a teacher without pronouns in their bio, they either have grey hair or don't believe the ideology. Either way, I know that I'll have someone to talk to!
When I attended public school in the 1960s the state goal of education was to create workers capable of monotonous, repetitive work in factories and offices, skilled tradesmen (to some extent), and good home-makers. Nowadays, with factory work for human beings going the way of the dinosaur, Western public schools seem to be focused on digital literacy along with the neo-Marxist postmodern goal of "canceling culture" - Western culture that is. The entire issue of "self identification" regarding gender is simply to indoctrinate students about the lack of objective truth so they flounder in confusion while going along with the state's ever-changing dictates (think Orwell's 1984, where Big Brother issued "new" news and dictates every day, which often contradicted the day's previous news /dictates). Yes, parents must - for the first time in decades - become actively involved in their child's daily schoolwork and protest everything they believe is unsuitable. And also make your opinions known to your Congress people (MPs in Canada) regardless of their political affiliation. Personally I believe that switching kids to homeschooling or private and charter schools - en mass - would end the left's stranglehold on our public schools. If not, we are destined to be the next oppressed minority; forced to educate/re-educate our children in secret.
I agree. I'm also supporting Faytene who is directly supporting the Premier in New Brunswick but also directly supporting every other Province. As she gets 5000 replies to www.dontdeletetheparents.ca she then sends this information-just the Postal Codes-to all the other Premiers plus the Prime Minister. I'm going to the places of worship in my city to do my part.
The author of this accurate and insightful essay writes: “Presently, the focus appears to be on fostering obedient ideologues, obedient social justice warriors, and obedient individuals preoccupied with self-identification.” That is true. It is an age of conformity, an age of woke communism, an age of anti-racist racism, and an age of western cultural disintegration.
A wonderful and enlightening article that points the blame correctly in my opinion to the true source of our problems in Canada. Trudeau and his bobblhead fools, Mr Socks, Blackface, he who speaks with forked tongue, call him what you will. This does not imply that all others are blameless but there is an extreme lack of people with intestinal fortitude with the courage to step up to the plate and bring about change.
What is it going to take to "Take back" control from these megalomaniacs these power hungry despots a full blown revolution?, if so then let it be so.
Revolutions arise when basic needs aren't being met. In our Western welfare states, even the lowest income citizens are usually still being fed, clothed and given basic medical care. And the shrinking middle class clings tightly to their comfortable bubbles, fearful of losing what they have - especially their jobs - if they speak out, much less join a revolutionary militia! Individuals, parents, must look into their hearts to find the courage to tackle the growing evil in our society. Not with a rifle. With non-violent words and acts. Let us hope and pray that will be enough.
I lived through a revolution that started when people’s lives had improved, many basic needs were met, at least in comparison to their previous state, BUT they became unappreciative, blind to this change, took their liberty for granted, forgot their past, started demanding equity and inclusion narrative, etc.
I admit that change was needed- as it is always the case- otherwise it is a standing water prime for breeding bateria. But that does not mean drain the pond which is what happened in the case of the revolution I lived through.
We need to let the river flow and that will clean out what is clogging the freedom of thought and expression. My two cents. Keep writing, keep fighting.
Great post! I highly recommend John Abbott's book. It's an interesting read and very relevant today. I do a lot of professional development with teachers, and I start each session with the question, "What is the point of school?" Without exception, the overwhelming response is 'to empower students to change the world!' No, it's not. We need to understand the world before we can/should change it. For reasons I don't really understand, the new cohort of teachers entering the profession lack any creative spark. There doesn't seem to be a sense of curiosity about the world anymore. Maybe I'm just getting old! The result is this religious approach to education, where everyone believes the same ideology and conducts the same rituals. There's no variety. I feel as old as a dinosaur, and I'm only in my early 40s.
I love that you ended your post talking about pronouns - it made me chuckle. When I see a teacher without pronouns in their bio, they either have grey hair or don't believe the ideology. Either way, I know that I'll have someone to talk to!
When I attended public school in the 1960s the state goal of education was to create workers capable of monotonous, repetitive work in factories and offices, skilled tradesmen (to some extent), and good home-makers. Nowadays, with factory work for human beings going the way of the dinosaur, Western public schools seem to be focused on digital literacy along with the neo-Marxist postmodern goal of "canceling culture" - Western culture that is. The entire issue of "self identification" regarding gender is simply to indoctrinate students about the lack of objective truth so they flounder in confusion while going along with the state's ever-changing dictates (think Orwell's 1984, where Big Brother issued "new" news and dictates every day, which often contradicted the day's previous news /dictates). Yes, parents must - for the first time in decades - become actively involved in their child's daily schoolwork and protest everything they believe is unsuitable. And also make your opinions known to your Congress people (MPs in Canada) regardless of their political affiliation. Personally I believe that switching kids to homeschooling or private and charter schools - en mass - would end the left's stranglehold on our public schools. If not, we are destined to be the next oppressed minority; forced to educate/re-educate our children in secret.
I agree. I'm also supporting Faytene who is directly supporting the Premier in New Brunswick but also directly supporting every other Province. As she gets 5000 replies to www.dontdeletetheparents.ca she then sends this information-just the Postal Codes-to all the other Premiers plus the Prime Minister. I'm going to the places of worship in my city to do my part.
The author of this accurate and insightful essay writes: “Presently, the focus appears to be on fostering obedient ideologues, obedient social justice warriors, and obedient individuals preoccupied with self-identification.” That is true. It is an age of conformity, an age of woke communism, an age of anti-racist racism, and an age of western cultural disintegration.
A wonderful and enlightening article that points the blame correctly in my opinion to the true source of our problems in Canada. Trudeau and his bobblhead fools, Mr Socks, Blackface, he who speaks with forked tongue, call him what you will. This does not imply that all others are blameless but there is an extreme lack of people with intestinal fortitude with the courage to step up to the plate and bring about change.
What is it going to take to "Take back" control from these megalomaniacs these power hungry despots a full blown revolution?, if so then let it be so.
Revolutions arise when basic needs aren't being met. In our Western welfare states, even the lowest income citizens are usually still being fed, clothed and given basic medical care. And the shrinking middle class clings tightly to their comfortable bubbles, fearful of losing what they have - especially their jobs - if they speak out, much less join a revolutionary militia! Individuals, parents, must look into their hearts to find the courage to tackle the growing evil in our society. Not with a rifle. With non-violent words and acts. Let us hope and pray that will be enough.
I lived through a revolution that started when people’s lives had improved, many basic needs were met, at least in comparison to their previous state, BUT they became unappreciative, blind to this change, took their liberty for granted, forgot their past, started demanding equity and inclusion narrative, etc.
I admit that change was needed- as it is always the case- otherwise it is a standing water prime for breeding bateria. But that does not mean drain the pond which is what happened in the case of the revolution I lived through.
We need to let the river flow and that will clean out what is clogging the freedom of thought and expression. My two cents. Keep writing, keep fighting.