NSW Premier Morris Iemma today sang the national anthem on live TV to act as a role model to other students who might soon be forced to sing their patriotic hearts out every morning (“Compulsory anthem to advance racial harmony”). The idea is to curb future racial outbreaks. And new subjects that will soon be […]
Entries Tagged as 'Values'
‘Give me the child and I’ll give you the man’
January 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Lesson 1: Political Correctness
January 8th, 2006 · Comments Off
What’s being taught in the classroom is a subject that always makes a striking come-back. This year, media reports covered the hackneyed relationship between religion and science and their respective theories on evolution, also known as the debate over “Intelligent Design”. While the feud between secularism and religion dates back to the 18th century […]
Tags: Student Activism · Values · Political Correctness · HSC · Islam · Voluntary Student Unionism
Terror Schools
December 18th, 2005 · Comments Off
Last Friday, the AFR ran an unusual, in-depth feature (“A Radical Education”) on Pakistan’s madrasas (or “terror schools”). (I think the article was first published in the New York Review of Books). Now it’s really difficult to find an article (and such an outstanding read) that looks at Islam’s education system so thoroughly in a […]
