Delighted to have a piece in this digital pamphlet, a selection of articles from the Scottish Union for Education Substack
Introductory paragraphs from my article
The indoctrination of children in Scottish schools has, to a large extent, been introduced by stealth. The upending of the core values of a consensual liberal education – ‘the best that has been thought and said’ – is being replaced by educational and political activists whose purpose is not education for education’s sake but a desire to reconstitute educational institutions as centres for social engineering. Whatever the perceived faults of a Western liberal education throughout history, we can surely agree with the aspiration of exposing students to the great canonical works of politics, the sciences, literature, art and their
critics in an engaging and open-ended pursuit of truth and reason?
But what we are now beginning to see are the low-hanging fruits of a politically motivated and dogmatic intervention in education. Parents are being exposed to, and are beginning to react to, the negative and destructive consequences of
indoctrination in schools – from the promotion of social transitioning of children to the divisive teaching of so-called ‘white privilege’. The three pillars of educational indoctrination today might be classified as:
• the re-racialisation of education in the form of the new ‘anti-racism’ based on critical race theory,
• the promotion of the hyper-sexualisation of sex education,
• the fortification of environmental sustainability across thecurriculum.
While both the racialisation and sexualisation of educationhave ignited the minds of many parents, prompting them to question and protest against the harmful effects of this kind of activism, environmental sustainability has received less scrutiny and attention from parents. Indeed, few groups critical of the sustainability agenda exist, despite the fact that it has become more entrenched in the curriculum over many decades.
You can download the digital pamphlet here.
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