.... this politically correct approach to history has quite a stranglehold in the classroom. One of the most widely used and popular school history textbooks, many times reprinted, is entitled, Minds and Machines: Britain 1750-1900.
It authors include senior advisors to Government. In order to denigrate all things British, bogus evidence is invented for pupils to use in forming an opinion of the British Empire. In relation to colonised people, for example, it states that “we have tried to imagine what they would tell us if they were to come back from the dead.” Pupils thus learn that an undead Princess Rani Lakshmi would tell us that: “The British punished survivors by firing cannon balls through them at point blank range”, and so on and so on.
The exposure of an extremist Islamic agenda in some Birmingham schools has hit the headlines. Rather then initiating a witch hunt, perhaps Government should pay some attention to what is being taught more widely in our classrooms in the name of value relativism and political correctness.
The “Trojan Horse” issue is a symptom, not a cause, of a “learning” revolution that has been taking place in our schools for some time in all parts of the country and in all of our schools. [Yorkshire Post] Read more
