Re: Teaching Brexit

As opposed to your extremely unbiased ideas?

Re: Teaching Brexit

I was under the impression that universities had intellectual freedom - something the scumbag 'nasty party' don't like and now want to try and control.

Re: Teaching Brexit

No-one has "freedom" to indoctrinate young people. Naturally your commie tendencies would lead to you wishing very much that you could indoctrinate them at will. Shame on you.

Teachers in all walks of life have a responsibility, a duty of care. They must NOT abuse their positions by selectively indoctrinating students towards their own political or philosophical preferences. They must be objective and mete out an objective syllabus.

Like I said. Roll on the investigation.

There's little doubt that a great deal of EU skulduggery has taken place via University propaganda and indoctrination. It must be stamped out and the perpetrators brought to justice.

Re: Teaching Brexit

It's no wonder young students love the EU. They're being indoctrinated

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ng-indoctrina/


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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world...-out-1.2609547

"Woolfe warned against indoctrinating students about the merits of the European Union.

“Having lost the argument that the EU has benefits to the young – youth unemployment is more than 35 per cent in most member states – the EU’s response is to ensure greater propaganda,” he told the chamber."



Brussels accused of INDOCTRINATING children with pro-EU classroom programme

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...-keith-redmond

"A Dublin think-tank has launched a furious attack on the bloc, which it claims is carrying out “insidious propaganda” on thousands of the country’s children"

"Keith Redmond, co-founder of the Hibernia Forum think tank, told Express.co.uk the classes were a blatant attempt by Brussels to create a generation of Europhiles"

etc etc

Then there is this:

Subversion by the Frankfurt School and Common Purpose

https://www.federaljack.com/ebooks/e...subversion.htm

Re: Teaching Brexit

Unless, of course, one teaches in a single faith school (that one's just for Muddy, for old time's sake)

As for objective syllabus...there in lies the problem. Sometimes the syllabus is far from objective. Things I've been told to teach in the past include a clearly biased one sided account which stated that global warming was 100% accurate and no other view was to be permitted nor open to discussion.

A particularly bright student wrote a piece of coursework for his General Studies which took an alternative view. It was well argued, used a variety of sources etc and was well worthy of an A/A* grade. The exam board awarded him a grade C because it didn't tow the political line.

Alas, I've been our of the game for a couple of years or so and can no longer quote specific exam questions as I no longer have to read and mark old practice papers (feel free to shoot me down here, accordingly), but even some maths GCSE questions had a political bent at times.

Re: Teaching Brexit

Individual Ministers on a personal crusade should not go around meddling with University education. It's not their place. Given the sensitivity of feeling about Brexit, perhaps he should have checked with the PM first? Totally short-sighted move on his behalf. If he was doing personal "research" as now claimed then he shouldn't be using his parliamentary seat for that.

Re: Teaching Brexit

If some of our posters had their way, we would be burning books next. No names.

Re: Teaching Brexit

We may have to in the future to keep warm.

Re: Teaching Brexit

But that's just it we want our kids exposed to all ideas and allowed to make their own political decision, not brainwashed by one side or the other. It would be just as wrong to have a purely brexit teaching style too. Freedom of thought is vital IMO

Re: Teaching Brexit

How can a learning institution tell students it makes sense when it's illogical human behaviour? Maybe one day they will teach it on psychology courses under "mass delusion".