“Professor White will claim ministers are already “moving in the right direction” towards realising his vision of replacing subjects with a series of personal aims for pupils.
But he says they must go further because traditional subjects were invented by the middle classes and are “mere stepping stones to wealth”. ”
What middle-class academic subjects are the cause of all this stepping stone to wealth? “These included English, maths, history, geography, science and Latin or a modern language. ”
Better to foster the model pupil: “The aims include fostering a model pupil who “values personal relationships, is a responsible and caring citizen, is entrepreneurial, able to manage risk and committed to sustainable development”. ”
Well, the seem to have gotten rid of the Great part, now they are working on the Britain part, I guess.
June 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Well, what do you expect from a country with this kind of idiot advising on education:
Drop ‘middle-class’ academic subjects says schools adviser
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024031/Drop-middle-class-academic-subjects-says-schools-adviser.html
“Professor White will claim ministers are already “moving in the right direction” towards realising his vision of replacing subjects with a series of personal aims for pupils.
But he says they must go further because traditional subjects were invented by the middle classes and are “mere stepping stones to wealth”. ”
What middle-class academic subjects are the cause of all this stepping stone to wealth? “These included English, maths, history, geography, science and Latin or a modern language. ”
Better to foster the model pupil: “The aims include fostering a model pupil who “values personal relationships, is a responsible and caring citizen, is entrepreneurial, able to manage risk and committed to sustainable development”. ”
Well, the seem to have gotten rid of the Great part, now they are working on the Britain part, I guess.