Re-education

Miranda Devine on the new 'educational' initiatives being proposed by the Gillard regime.

“The independent and Catholic schools have a lot to worry about,” says Victorian education consultant Kevin Donnelly, one of the few experts sounding alarm bells over the Gonski review.

He believes the long-term plan is to “integrate” independent schools into the government sector. The threat of withdrawing Commonwealth funding will be tied to demands non-government schools conform to certain expectations such as implementing the national curriculum, complete with any politically correct social engineering elements.

Education is a very powerful tool for manipulating the young and impressionable and has long been a primary goal of neo-Marxist theoreticians ala the 'long march' philosophy advocated by Gramsci so many years ago. A significant level of indoctrination already exists in the school system through the 'offical text books', something I was reminded of when attempting to argue a contrarian position against the  automatic acceptance of the theory of Anthropogenic global warming. The year 9 class were insistent that my opposition was incorrect because the text book said that AGW was true.
The more this Government has control over the educational agenda the further we slip into the re-educational modes exemplified by Pol pot and various marxist Oligarchy's.

UPDATE 5.9.11

Liberals - or leftists - of today can trace their lineage straight back to the radicalism of the late eighteenth century. All the tricks of the trade we find so characteristic of today’s radical left were present in this bloody revolution. The bloodshed, violence and demonic mob activity has been chronicled plenty of times before, but Coulter offers a nice summary.

Anything associated with the old order was targeted by the mobs, but anything having to do with the church was especially focused on. Priests, nuns and lay people were massacred in large numbers, while churches were destroyed and one sacrilege after another was carried out.

Some of the gruesome descriptions of what the mobs did to ordinary men, women and children are almost too hard to stomach. Rape, torture, mutilation, and hideous forms of killing were the norm. If one had to illustrate the actions of the demonic, surely this was it. It seemed there were not enough guillotines to keep up with all the carnage and slaughter.

And all the while the crowds were cheering this on. The Jacobin program of “de-Christianization” was especially ferocious and repellent. Indeed, “the word ‘vandalisme’ had to be invented to describe” their actions as they desecrated churches, looted Christian properties, and destroyed sacred art. The revolutionaries sought to “completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state”.

Anything associated with Christianity was open to attack. Citizens were even forced to drop their Christian names. A new Revolutionary Calendar was established, with the months renamed, and even clocks were redesigned in decimal time.