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Schooling Australia II: the 21st century learning furphy : Comments

By Fiona Mueller and Deidre Clary, published 28/9/2018

Is it educational heresy to question if the '21st century model' is likely to be successful? What if the proverbial baby be tossed out with the bathwater?

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We need pragmatism as never before and sticking with tried and not found basics! Rather than, untried untested intellectual concepts, that have since their introduction, simply compounded problems and a much larger cohort of kids leaving the education system as illiterates!

As alleged teachers with" Blacksmith's" grades were given carte blanche entry into, for profit, ed courses?

Thus we have numerically illiterate teachers, teaching maths and other who would fail any half-way decent spelling bee teaching our kids English. And don't even understand the proper use of a semicolon in essays or literature; as just one example of how far we travelled backwards in our earnest search to be among the finest failed education systems in a rapidly changing world.

And as the resident knumbskulls wax lyrical about the arts and arts degrees for a world where most of the incomes will go increasing to those proficient in all the STEM subjects.

Which could be improved with the inclusion of abandoned phonetics, music and mindfulness.

Other than that, I tire of this constant push to include special ed in normal classrooms to help (allegedly) the self-esteem of that cohort, while completely ignoring just how well it prevents the full development of our best and brightest and traps them, as daydreamers, in the common herd.

Time for a return to basics and removing the dross from the unionised system. As many teachers could and should be replaced by computer programs and home learning. As a superior solution to paying top rates for the worst cohort of teachers, this country has produced for decades.

Religious freedom should be left to the churches and eliminated from schools where the incontrovertible evidence tells us, this does more harm than good and suppresses or completely blocks essential as never before, critical independent thinking.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 28 September 2018 11:20:37 AM
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Education in Australia nowadays is merely whacking the nails into the coffin of common sense.
Posted by individual, Friday, 28 September 2018 4:08:17 PM
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the education system has totally failed to get people to learn to think. Group think, socialist dogma and conspiracy theories such as man made gw are repeated often enough to silence debate. We have got to a stage where a baby with a penis is no longer a boy or a baby with a vagina no longer a girls. The feminised education system has certainly led to a lot of stupidity.
Posted by runner, Friday, 28 September 2018 4:42:58 PM
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How are we supposed to take your article?

You're not just teachers and educators but hold higher positions in the education system.

"Will it deliver real and lasting improvements to education in this country and give everyone confidence that all is in hand to prepare young Australians for post-school life?

Or is it a bit of a furphy?"

What does it say to us if you're doubting the system you're supposed to be advocating?
You're the experts yet you ask us, tell me what does that say?
What's the bigger picture, or do they not teach that?

"Is it educational heresy to question if the '21st century model' is likely to be successful?"

You ask whether it's 'educational heresy' to question things.
- I've got to ask how far exactly have you girls regressed into mindless jellyfish;
When you allow yourself to question whether you're allowed to question things.

THAT'S THE ESSENCE OF EDUCATION.
Learning by questioning things.

I'm not going to go on too much about the foreign / global curriculum being imposed upon us, but I will say these things are being decided by the same UNESCO that determines our migrants / refugees.

They create the problem, now they tell us how to manage it.

The only point I can make is if you girls have a hunch that something smells off, then do something about it.
(It's too late now, this nation has been sold out to a globalist agenda)

But if you experts can't identify the problems and tell us what we need to know; and figure out the correct curriculum for our kids without us being forced into the arms of foreigners and a globalist agenda then we really don't need you for anything, do we?

The West has been sold out by UN agendas to a totalitarian system being developed by big tech and China, who are in league with US Democrats.
Trump is an enemy of these people because he supports nationalism.
The Chinese social credit system will be the model for our 'Safe Cities 2030' and other UN Sustainable Development Goals agendas.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Saturday, 29 September 2018 12:45:24 AM
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But if you experts can't identify the problems and tell us what we need to know; and figure out the correct curriculum for our kids without us being forced into the arms of foreigners and a globalist agenda then we really don't need you for anything, do we?

Armchair Critic,
I thank you for restoring my faith in humanity with this sentence. Not ALL is lost yet if there are still logic thinking people out there.
Posted by individual, Saturday, 29 September 2018 9:05:24 AM
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I'm totally unconvinced, falling educational standards are carriculum based.

There is major social instability in this country, of which one big part of it is a housing crisis; the other is job-insecurity. Educational outcomes are a litmus test that demonstrates it. Childhood insecurity.

An increasing number of young families with children, live in rented accommodation with no security of tenure, lliving hand to mouth with job insecurity. Over forty percent of the overall population live under this rule, of which the vast majority are young families with children.

There is an exponential line which connects bad educational outcomes, to increasing social instability.
Posted by diver dan, Sunday, 30 September 2018 9:25:48 AM
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Hear, hear and well said, Diver!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Monday, 1 October 2018 10:10:50 AM
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Hear, hear and well said, Diver!
# me too
Posted by individual, Monday, 1 October 2018 9:33:30 PM
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