“Progressives” (that’s code for liberals and socialists, “artists” and hippies, anarchists, communists, feminists, and gay industry advocates, and of course pro-abortion fans) hate history being taught in schools because it causes the young ‘uns to hearken back to the time when “progressives” really hated our western nations—when things were less politically correct and socialist and “progressive” generally. You know, when things were just fine.
As we know, liberals hate Canada, America, and most of our western nations as they were founded and as they persist, and constantly seek to remake them according to their far more enlightened world view, because they know best.
By detaching tomorrow’s voters and leaders from our nations’ history, it is far easier to remake society in their “modern” “progressive” world view. When you don’t teach history, the youth have no basis upon which to weigh the value of the “progressives’” claptrap.
So this story from Great Britain comes as absolutely no surprise. In North America, history lessons have long disappeared as the strong staple of our “modern” education system that it used to be, as our state-run schools have morphed into state-run left-wing “progressive” indoctrination centers. As Ann Coulter says in Godless, they are the churches of liberalism, with teachers the clerics. Today, they’re more concerned with indoctrinating kids with lessons of their church: gay lessons and condom lessons and mapping out the nearest abortion mill for the young ‘uns. And of course “George Bush is evil” and “corporations are evil” lessons, and so on.
Schools told to dump Churchill and Hitler from history lessons
13.07.07
Secondary schools will strip back the traditional curriculum in favour of lessons on debt management, the environment and healthy eating, ministers revealed.
Even Winston Churchill no longer merits a mention after a drastic slimming-down of the syllabus to create more space for “modern” issues.
Along with Hitler, Gandhi, Stalin and Martin Luther King, the former prime minister has been dropped from a list of key figures to be mentioned in history teaching.
This means pupils may no longer hear about his stirring speeches during the Second World War, when he told Parliament that defeating Hitler would be Britain’s “finest hour”.
The only individuals now named in guidance accompanying the curriculum are anti-slavery campaigners Olaudah Equiano and William Wilberforce.
The omission of Churchill added to a growing row over Labour reforms to secondary education – the most radical since the national curriculum was introduced in 1988.
Critics warned traditional subject disciplines were being stripped of key content and used to promote fashionable causes and poorly-defined “life skills”.
They said that while the two World Wars remain on the curriculum as broad topics the failure to specify teaching on Churchill – while naming other individuals – downgraded his importance.
The move was called “madness” by his grandson Nicholas Soames, the Tory MP.
“It is absurd. I expect he wasn’t New Labour enough for them,” he said.
[…]
The architect of the new curriculum, Dr Ken Boston, insisted traditional approaches had been “exhausted”.
[…]
Key subjects such as history and science will be cut back to allow teachers to spend a quarter of the day helping pupils who struggle with literacy and numeracy.
At the same time, staff will be expected to introduce topics such as personal finance and Urdu aimed at preparing youngsters for life in the 21st century.
[…]
The news follows a report from the think-tank Civitas warning that subjects are being hijacked by politicians to promote pet causes.
Deputy director Robert Whelan said: “It is almost as if the Government has taken the damaging trends highlighted in our report and ratcheted them up a notch.”
[…]
And for another twist:
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
By LAURA CLARK
2nd April 2007Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial. […]
(Hat tip to Heather M. for the first article and her spot-on accompanying comment: “These people are certifiable.”)
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