A Maoist Education
LYNN BELL: In a provocative speech to be delivered today, the Education Minister Julie Bishop says state and territory bureaucracies should be stripped of their responsibility for setting school curriculum.
She says ideologues within state education authorities, have hijacked school curriculum and some of the themes emerging are straight from Chairman Mao.
I don’t know about this, how about we ask Chairman Mao on education and training?
As for the training courses, the main objective should still be to raise the level of technique in marksmanship, bayoneting grenade-throwing and the like and the secondary objective should be to raise the level of tactics, while special emphasis should be laid on night operations.
Well I certainly missed out in high school, perhaps I should have demanded that my parents have been born richer and sent me to the rifle-range equipped Kings.
In any case the very last word on education, art, culture and science really should go to The Great Helmsman:
We think that it is harmful to the growth of art and science if administrative measures are used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and to ban another. Questions of right and wrong in the arts and sciences should be settled through free discussion in artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields. They should not be settled in summary fashion.
BSFairman wrote:
Something about “to get rid of the gun one must take up the gun” sounds a little like the current defence policy.
Peter Kemp wrote:
(Power grows out of the barrel of having control of both houses):
History test today year 10 boys and girls: Discuss the reasons for Australia joining WW1 without mentioning racism, jingoism and Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Discuss in terms of conservative, ruling class noblesse-oblige to those less fortunate than some of us, born in those ghastly countries without civilisation, running water and Christianity.
Define: “Worthy Oriental Gentleman.”
Explain how ideas of anglo-centric superiority over the”Gyppos” applied then as they do now. Explain how Australian “mateship” is exclusive to us and why all the other riffraff in the world don’t have this “mateship”
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