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The Enemies of Promise: Labour's Long War against Education.
- Source :
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Political Quarterly . Oct2010, Vol. 81 Issue 4, p627-633. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Labour and New Labour alike have been the enemies of education. Consider the brutalism of Charles Clarke--'history for display purposes only'; statistics of achievement based on the soft marking of soft subjects to achieve soviet pig-iron statistics; fat inspection and thin curriculum; compulsory lesson plans and paper plagues; foreign languages as too difficult. Before all that, remember Anthony Crosland 'destroying their schools if it's the last fucking thing I do' and the consequent rise of the public schools as bought excellence. What to do : Follow Housman's dictum, 'Knowledge is happiness'; rescue good minds in bad places with state places in boarding schools; utilise the quiz nationally the as a pop method to stimulate the study habit; get back to French and German; take the educationalism out of education especially in training colleges; thin inspection down from terror to weather-eye mentoring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00323179
- Volume :
- 81
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Political Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 54952282
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2010.02114.x