I’ll put it stronger than I did: The thread seems to offer a doctrine of alternative political correctness that’s the antithesis of my approach to liberty. I don’t agree with a lot of the predominant ideas and beliefs among teachers, and I think almost all of the educational theory that teachers learn under state mandate in B.Ed or PGCE courses is pernicious; but I’d like them to be free to be wrong in their own ways.

What is a current threat to liberty (in the UK at least) is a state prescribed curriculum forced on teachers regardless of how wild or sane their personal views are. In particular we should worry about the government’s adbocacy of “citizenship” lessons as a source of political indoctrination and monitoring.

What is thought? What is conscience? One answer: a quiet conversation with youself.

Reason? Logic? Those tools needed to order thought so as to derive the positive outcomes when engaging in intellectual inquiry.

While your parents should be the ones who get you started properly down that path, like as not it will be a TEACHER who will give you your first exposure to those subjects.

Political correctness is the prime vehicle for the ‘ordering’ of minds. Selective exposure to facts (or history if you will), altered definitions of words, IMPERMISSIBLE words and concepts (thoughts). Have an agenda? The minds of child are empty bowls waiting to be filled…are they being handed the tools to order their thoughts, or are they being led down a path to a destination of someone else’s choosing?

Remember the phrases: ‘Slavery is Freedom’, ‘Freedom is Slavery’ ?

If I control the meaning of words, the permissibility of thoughts, and the flow of facts…I CONTROL YOU. Orwell DID warn you, but were you listening? If you think these issues are NOT interlinked with your ‘civil liberties’, then you do have a problem.

Do you know what your children’s mind are being filled with? I do. Do you?