Education Minister Tudge has FINALLY stirred his stumps and said that the Marxist Mob will have to substantially rewrite its national curriculum draft.

A hundred and forty years ago, Dostoevsky wrote, “Give to all teachers ample opportunity to destroy the old society and to build a new one, and the result will be such darkness, such chaos, such unheard-of coarseness, blindness, and inhumanity, that the entire structure will collapse under the curses of humankind even before it is completed’.

Eighty years ago, Robert Menzies, founder of the then great Liberal Party, warned that some teachers might yield to the temptation to teach history so as to justify some current and personally held theory and, therefore, deface history and obscure the lessons that it can teach.

You would have thought someone posing as education minister would have been aware of history in general but more importantly, the history of his own party and the wisdom of its past leaders. He could have prevented the destructive cranks from running amok before they actually did.

ttbn,
He’s part of the problem that he is trying to solve.

He’s part of the problem that he is trying to solve.
is Mise,
No ! Labor started this problem & is still doing it. Show me more than 1% of teachers who are not staunch Labor & Teacher's Union supporters !

The move from teachers' college to universities has driven the teaching profession to the left, and the Marxist unions don't help. But, Tudge has been as weak as water. While I don't think he can be accused of creating the problem, the Morrison government is notoriously gutless on protecting Australian values, not going anywhere near the culture wars. Morrison has said that he is not interested in wokeness. Morrison is the real villain. All his ministers seem to be frightened of him.

Tudge didn't perform in his previous portfolio but to blame him for the dumbing-down circus that Education has become is going a few steps too far.
The education disaster is purely down to Labor & its supporters !

individual,

You know what I think of Labor, but the Liberals have been in government for eight years without doing something. When the Liberals get a knock back on anything (and I don't recall them being concerned about education at all) they fold, instead of lobbying, spruiking and fighting for what they believe. They backdown. Industrial relations is one that comes to mind. They act like an opposition too often.