TO be able to make such claims and them be taken seriously you would have to have knowledge. Zahawi is expressing an opinion about a subject he knows nothing about. Teachers are pretty fucked off about Right wingers from Public school fucking up kids education. IN all my years as a teacher we had to fend off basic ignorance from the politicians.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:13 pmAd hominem. That doesn't do one thing to tell us whether in this case, we're getting the truth or a lie. And I can tell you that the perspective is no different from any professional "educationist," as you call them. The facts are the facts, like 'em or not.Belinda wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:08 pmRegarding your Daily Mail article, Nahim Zahawi is a right wing politician not a professional educationist.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 2:53 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ching.html That's the UK. In the US, a similar thing is going on: the purging of classics, of hard science, of data, and so forth from subjects that used to rely upon them, in favour of "ethnographies" and "lived experience" retellings treated as if they were hard data. It's so universal that to name only one or two universities would be impossible; it would be easier to locate those few who are opting out of the new politically-correct curricula and programming.
Here's a balanced article, one that focuses on the data rather than extrapolation. Make your own conclusions, if you like: https://www.aei.org/articles/are-colleg ... s-climate/
Or take your own local university. And check, and see if they are still using scientific methodology in your own area, history. I'll warrant you they are not.
If they are, they're an exception to the rule.
It's a case of Lions being led by lambs.
So go and check your own university. I'm not even asking you to believe me. Or I can send you a dozen more articles you can cheerfully ignore.