“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling” Thomas Sowell. For all the high-minded talk of teaching “critical thinking” and “creativity”, the modern
Alwyn Poole innovativeducation.co.nz In an affluent country like New Zealand children are in material deprivation for one of two reasons. Either their parent(s) are not earning/receiving enough money in a relatively high-cost nation or they are not spending what they have in an effective and appropriate
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This NZ teacher covers the complexities of gender and sexuality issues so well I feel we could all benefit from seeing her address in its entirety. She does not speak from a Christian perspective but mainly from sound pedagogical principles ie good educational practice. Here is a link to a
This is part one of a series of articles that exposes the ideology behind the New Zealand Mates & Dates programme. Our Guest writer reveals what they don’t want New Zealand parents or the general public to know. *First published February 2019 Mates & Dates Part one: Biology doesn’
Ssshhh…while you were sleeping the academic elves were hard at work preparing entry-level indoctrination material for our Level 4 (10-14-year-old) curriculum. Yes: we have a brand new ‘School Journal’ titled ‘Ti Tiriti O Waitangi’, released, or set loose, on our kids just eighteen months ago. It’s a comic
Susan Nixon Ex-Homeschooler For over sixty years New Zealand has been implementing and in thrall to the ‘whole word‘ system of teaching reading. This sight vocabulary method, which relies heavily on guessing or memorising words based on their form or contextual clues, found its way into our schools in the
Pauline Hanson, bless her fiery locks, has a way of throwing spanners into the smugly well-oiled machine of the left-media elite. When she wore a burqa into parliament, for example, she effortlessly highlighted the hypocrisy and pomposity of the political-media class. Leftist elites clutch their pearls, but many Quiet Australians
In an exceptionally brilliant piece of bluff calling, Professor Andrew Parker of St John’s College at Oxford University trolled the idiotic students at one of the UK’s most prestigious educational establishments. Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting
The Supreme Court backs Trump plan to deny green cards to those who get public aid, in a move to prevent the Cloward-Piven collapse for which some Democrats yearn. That’s just one topic on this week’s Right Angle Lightning Round. Other topics include… * Why Democrats oppose the educational
Press Release: ACT Party “After its dismal performance on Maori issues in government, Labour deserves to lose every single Maori electorate this year”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Labour’s Maori caucus of 13 is a record and the Ministry is almost a third Maori. What have they achieved?
AHNZ ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz Another State lolly scramble with your money, another academic corruption of what should be natural and authentic. No community, no culture, no language, requires or pursues million-dollar professorial task forces to sift through accidental trivia for 3 years. No commercial enterprise would pay $666k to
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Editor’s note: Part Four is the final article in the series and it is a detailed analysis of the ‘myths’ about Climate Change and their supposed refutations by Jock Allison. An analysis by Dr Jock Allison of flaws in the science presented, focusing on the
Barbara McKenzie stovouno.org Activism (Sections B and C) The purpose of the curriculum is not to educate: it is to terrify the children, then prime them for activism. The argument for an urgent need for activism is as follows: * Greenhouse gases, generated by human activities, such as CO2 and
