‘WHEN TEACHERS DON’T’

Posted on June 21, 2015 by KG

‘Professor Ken Wiltshire, co-chair of the government’s review into the national curriculum, identifies a central problem with modern education – the teachers:
Professor Wiltshire said he was dismayed by some of the new-age teaching methods he uncovered during his review into the curriculum which left him with the view that Australian schools are letting our kids down.
One example included revelations some students had been tasked with identifying the “environmentally irresponsible” passages in the works of 16th century playwright William Shakespeare …
“They take a beautiful piece of literature and instead of enjoying it they take a marker out and start ‘deconstructing’ it.
“They’re given a work by Shakespeare and told to use a brown marker to indicate the racist passages, a purple marker to indicate the sexist passages and a green marker to indicate the environmentally irresponsible passages.”….’
Tim Blair
I’m convinced that teaching kids about Shakespeare – to appreciate Shakespeare – is simply too difficult for these wombles posing as “teachers”. Far easier to use the text as a vehicle to propagandize.

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17 Responses to ‘WHEN TEACHERS DON’T’

  1. C-CS says:
    June 21, 2015 at 17:23

    Australia’s version of common core-
    C-CS

  2. k2 says:
    June 21, 2015 at 17:58

    Take a lesson from the US. Fix it soon or it will be too late. If there’s a rock to die on for the pro liberty crowd, it’s ejecting the SJWs from academia.

  3. MacDoctor says:
    June 21, 2015 at 17:59

    It highly unlikely that these so-called “teachers” have ever read any Shakespeare, barring the Cliff Notes versions. Expecting them to have any understanding of the material outside of their blinkered little feminista world is like expecting a mollusc to understand quantum physics…

  4. KG says:
    June 21, 2015 at 18:28

    “…is like expecting a mollusc to understand quantum physics…”
    :mrgreen: http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif Perfect!
    So they’d be unaware of Harold Bloom’s ‘The Western Canon’ then?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Canon:_The_Books_and_School_of_the_Ages
    (Bloom maintains that Shakespeare said everything there was to say about the human condition, and in the process shaped Western thought in crucial ways. It’s a fascinating book. He was also scathing about academia.)

    • MacDoctor says:
      June 21, 2015 at 20:02

      Seeing as Bloom’s book is an eloquent rebuttal of feminist literary “criticism” (amongst other academic wankery), I would say the chances of them reading it are on par with Satan learning to snow-board…

  5. Cadwallader says:
    June 21, 2015 at 20:06

    “How all occasions do inform against me…”http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  6. Flashman says:
    June 22, 2015 at 06:20

    You’re missing the point. “Teaching” is an outdated concept. It’s being replaced with the so-called NLF “New Learning Framework” which involves *facilitating learning* and not teaching, as in instruction.

    Under NLF “learners” mostly self-direct themselves using self-discovered on-line resources with the “teacher” floating around assisting and” facilitiating”…sort of like a hockey coach who might have a general knowledge of how to play the game.

    Although touted as a internet age learning mode, NLF is really a disguise for teacher ignorance and, most important, a great way for educational accountants and bureaucrats to reduce class room costs.

    Under NLF a curriculum indicating Shakespeare translates into a “teacher” holding a Chinese parliament with the learners and to debate “What do we need to know about The Bard?” Ergo we have a bunch of teenagers tossing ideas into the pot such as “explore racism”, “environmental risk”, “gender micro-oppression” etc.. And there you have it…a shake-and-bake candy-floss learning experience.

    At this time NZ and Australian high schools, TAFE’s and on up to polytechs are generally hot to trot on NLF for the above-stated cost-related reasons.

    • KG says:
      June 22, 2015 at 06:37

      What a bloody horrorshow…..and what a huge bill to be paid for it in the future.

      • dondiego says:
        June 22, 2015 at 18:57

        The future is now. Ask any poor bastard here (N.Z or Aus) who has hired an under 20 lately. Occasionally I’ll peruse the paper on the table at work. Other week I learned 50+% of the Gen Y’s need further training. As in they’re not ready for the most basic employment across the board, more than half of them.

        *It was an article about failing state of apprenticeships

  7. Wombat says:
    June 22, 2015 at 19:34

    When you have sense and foresight, and you’re planning the future of your children, you come to strange crossroads.
    In one direction the sign reads “teach my child that all men deserve liberty, even if in their ignorance they would deny it to others”.
    In the other direction the sign reads “teach my child that the world is largely populated by fucking cattle, and you can either choose to be the guy with the cleaver or you can choose to be a cow.”

    The world has 5 years to convince me one way or the other.

  8. Mathew says:
    June 22, 2015 at 23:15

    I’m surprised there wasn’t anything about homophobia, nothing about islamophobia either, shocking that ‘moors’ and such just flew over their empty heads.

    • Ronbo says:
      June 23, 2015 at 00:03

      Can you legally do home schooling in Australia and New Zealand?

      It’s quite the rage here in the States, especially since the creation of “Common Core” (better known as “Communist Core” to the majority) whereby the federal government seized control of public education in America, which had been in state and local hands.

      Thus little Jimmie in Florida and Janie in Hawaii get taught exactly the same dumbed down propaganda lesson on the same day.

      DOUBLEPLUSGOOD, heh?

      Anyhow, many American parents have done a “Mutiny on the Bounty” and pulled their kids out of the government schools – and do education on their own to superior results.