Category Archives: Education

Why We See So Many Horrid Little Activists Tony Thomas Who’s the most important educator of Australian schoolkids? The learned amongst us might nominate my fellow-(ex)journo Derek Scott, CEO of Melbourne’s Haileybury College and current chair of ACARA (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority). Nah, not him. My nomination is Jason Kimberley, whose dad, CraigContinue reading “Education”

Flat White Rod Lampard Pexels Rod Lampard 3 May 2023 7:00 AM One of the biggest benefits of homeschooling is the healthy distance home education puts between politics, their peers, and our kids. We live in an era where government is God and its priesthood is post-modernist partisan activism. A time when parents are told to restContinue reading “Homeschool, if you can”

Education Raymond Burns In recent weeks, BHP, Australia’s biggest mining company, has announced the Ngarrngga Project, an educational initiative aimed at “encouraging Indigenous knowledge experts and practicing classroom teachers to work collaboratively”. The project finds BHP partnered with the University of Melbourne, which is well known for its Indigenous Knowledge Institute. According to the promotionalContinue reading “Indigenising the Curriculum in Our Schools”

Education Tom Lewis The state of affairs across Australia’s schools sees teachers burdened with an enormous number of tasks above and beyond teaching. One of these is known as “pastoral care”, for which teachers are not trained. It is a massive addition to the workload, contributes to burnout and early departures from the profession. ConsiderContinue reading “Here’s a Novel Idea, Let Teachers Teach”

Flat White Beverley McArthur Getty Images Beverley McArthur 11 March 2023 4:00 AM There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters. It makes you sit up and ponder, doesn’t it? It makes you question. But more than simple, or thought-provoking, it’s powerful. ItContinue reading “Victimhood: the inversion of evolution by social stealth”

Frank Furedi Roots & Wings Substack 28 February 2023 According to new report published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, American teenagers are increasingly miserable, anxious and depressed and report ‘persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. Typically, explanations for the so-called mental health crisis vary from blaming the social media, the atomisation ofContinue reading “The Culture of Fear and the Invention of the Vulnerable Student”