The Swedish government is aiming to put a blanket ban in place where there will be no new schools of any faith. This restriction is reminiscent of the educational oppression that Christians face in Cuba, Libya, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia.
By sacking one of his best generals and replacing him with a ‘woke chic’ scholar when the country is already suffering from racial tensions, Macron gives the unsettling impression that France’s decadence is a settled issue.
In keeping with the Conference on the Future of Europe, the EU seeks to take a lead in how children are educated about the EU, its history, and why it exists, and to develop an EU-wide and euro-centric approach to education.
As Ronald Reagan put it: “Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation from extinction.” This requires no explanation for us Hungarians—we have learnt this from repeated experience.
This time, things are really getting serious because a point of no return has been reached. The French system finds itself confronted with an unprecedented situation that no one has been able to anticipate on such a scale: the recruitment of teachers is becoming impossible.
During COVID-19 school closures, classes took place online, and most digital platforms used tracking technologies that trailed children both inside their virtual classrooms and beyond, across the internet, over time. These various trackers were impossible to avoid or erase even if the child users or their parents were aware that it was happening.
All of this reform accompanies a general slackening of standards, which is fitting, given that the ideologically-driven deconstruction of traditional categories and standards is facilitated if the young are brought up to be unaccustomed with precise thinking and rigor.
Despite contradictory evidence, Nancy Faeser, along with other hard-left ministers and politicians, continue to claim that ‘right-wing extremism’ represents the greatest security threat to the German state and its democracy.
At the beginning of the next school year, Spanish children aged six and under who’re enrolled in public schools will be taught that gender—rather than a biological reality—is a social construct.
Trans activists wield an enormous amount of cultural power, and their ideology is far from discredited in the eyes of progressive politicians, delusional academics, and their media microphones. Yet, from the British Isles to the Continent to the Nordic nations, people are beginning to wake up.
Once we have firmly established truth and beauty as the foundations of our educational efforts, we can start with undertaking the first and most difficult task in the educational adventure of making visible the hidden seed: character formation.
