The Educational Social Experiment
The BBC reported a little while back that, according to an annual report from Ofsted, ‘the social divide in schools in England shows little sign of closing’.
You may have thought that our educational system was meant to be a place for actually educating children; instilling in them fact and intellectual rigour rather than a method of profound and radical social engineering.
Well, if you thought that modern schooling was about learning and teaching then sadly you’re mistaken. Successive British Governments have slowly shaped the educational establishment around the equality agenda and the desire to force everyone down one set path.
In real terms this has meant the gradual decline of standards over the past few decades. This has been exemplified by changes in the examination system, with exams having been purposefully made easier to such an extent that seemingly nobody can actually fail one. Furthermore, through the destruction of Grammar schools and the selective system, the brightest and best children have been thoroughly failed by being held back to further the creation of a more ‘equal’ generation of children.
At the opposite end of the scale, and rather unsurprisingly, those desperately claiming that educational standards have increased (when everyone else can quite clearly see they have substantially decreased) are Government ministers, schools and curious liberal children’s groups, who themselves, like successive governments are in fact more interested in social engineering from the bottom upwards rather than actually educating young and eager minds, or the very least have a self-interest in perpetuating the increasing standards myth.
Top Universities such as Oxford and Cambridge have been forced to make students sit their own special entrance exams because A-levels do not help differentiate between the best applicants, and other Universities and further education institutes are complaining that many students they receive cannot even spell, use basic grammar or do simple arithmetic.
As we have seen recently, when there is actual ‘education’ involved in the system, it is used primarily to indoctrinate – the latest prime example of this being the Government wishing to distribute Al Gore’s dubious and politically biased climate change film, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ to every school in Britain. Thankfully this is being challenged in the high court at the moment – but Ministers will only try again at a later stage and with something else. Perhaps this is another reason why the whole educational establishment should be taken out of the hands of government and privatised?
