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Leading members of UKIP have pledged a total ban on the teaching of children in schools, after the recent local election results revealed that educated voters who knew stuff about things were much less likely to vote for them.
In 2010, UKIP announced it would ban the teaching of climate change if elected, but it now says it will go much further and ban the teaching of knowledge of any kind in schools.
Speaking to the BBC, UKIP education spokesman Derek Clark said:
“If we continue to allow militant teachers in our schools who insist on teaching stuff to our children, it is becoming clear that we will never get enough people to vote for us. Children knowing stuff is very damaging indeed. To our chances of winning elections mainly.“
Although scientists are “95%” certain that a good education results in people knowing things, the general public have become more sceptical in recent years, particularly following revelations that some of the stupidest MPs in parliament actually had access to a very good education.
A recent ITV poll found that half of those questioned thought knowledge was something which happened naturally and some UKIP supporters either didn’t know or didn’t believe that human teachers were the cause of education.
However, Dr Eyre, who is also Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy at the ECI and Oriel College Oxford, insisted: “Research clearly shows that there is a very strong link between people knowing things and people having an education and anthropogenic acquisition of knowledge is overwhelmingly accepted by the global scientific community to be the cause of people knowing shit about stuff.“
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Unfortunately, I can see there being some bluff, ex-Tory members of UKIP, who really believe this. People who believe the proles should have just enough education to prepare them for life in a factory or office cubicle, but not enough to challenge their social superiors. I can remember when I was at school back in the 1980s there was a massive outcry when someone in the Conservatives said that the working class should be taught to read, write and that’s it. Time’s gone on, but it wouldn’t even remotely surprise me that there was someone like them in UKIP.
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Brilliant !
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I sometimes wish, I knew fuck-all about nothing…but never mind, at least I know NF arage is a c**t!
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Never heared or read such rubbish in all my life !!
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There is also a clear scientific link between owning a first class education & then pursuing a political career of crass stupidity in the discovery of Boris Johnson 🙂
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damn the cursed spread of education among serfs, i’m still waiting for mine… i do remember a story called “the black velvet gown”….
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You jest but in 70s US, there was the influential Powell Memorandum by Judge Lewis Powell which had huge impact on schools and University teaching:
‘Based in part on his experiences as a corporate lawyer and as a representative for the tobacco industry with the Virginia legislature, he wrote the Powell Memorandum to a friend at the US Chamber of Commerce.[6] The memo called for corporate America to become more aggressive in molding politics and law in the US and may have sparked the formation of several influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as The Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council, as well as inspiring the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to become far more politically active.[7][8]
On August 23, 1971, prior to accepting President Nixon’s request to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Powell sent the “Confidential Memorandum” titled “Attack on the American Free Enterprise System.” He argued, “The most disquieting voices joining the chorus of criticism came from perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.” In the memorandum, Powell advocated “constant surveillance” of textbook and television content, as well as a purge of left-wing elements. He named consumer advocate Ralph Nader as the chief antagonist of American business.[9]’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell%2C_Jr.
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syzy
lest we forget…the roots of mccarthyism, the elitism v socialism….yet socialism remains unabated albeit stifled in its progress, pushing ever onwards and upwards from the wellspring of humanity…
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There’s no need for UKIP to ban education in schools. Mike Goofy of the Education Department is well on the way there already.
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“yet socialism remains unabated”
Sorry OBD, but sadly that just isn’t true in England.
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State education (like health care) has been effectively banned already under the previous Labour govt.
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