John Baker’s Blog

The UK government’s Department for Children, Schools and Families has proposed the expansion of the number of faith schools. This has worried the teachers’ unions and should give the rest of us cause for concern.

Faith schools, the government tell us, do not only offer religious parents the assurance that their offspring will be similarly prejudiced to themselves, they also offer exchange visits, studies in comparative religion and outreach programmes.

But instead of studying with other children of different faiths and cultures, instead of experiencing each day the similarities and differences between them, the pupils at these schools will be introduced to other faiths as part of a curriculum.

The cohesion of our future communities can only be undermined if these proposals are adopted.

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Dick Jones’ tells his students to read, to read anything & everything. Make it a habit. Regard every unfamiliar word, phrase, term, figure of speech as a challenge to understanding that must be met. Master language & you need never be manipulated, exploited, controlled, owned by anyone.

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Not encouraging for those of you who want to write . . .

A third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read a book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

More on Erma Bombeck’s site.

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Two books for American kids that should never have been published. Why Mommy Is a Democrat is about a single-mother squirrel intent on brainwashing her children and turning them into liberals.

Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! is about a couple of enterprising kids who are harassed and brow-beaten both in their dreams and in reality into adopting a mindless, flag-waving mentality.

Books, especially books for children, should concentrate on the process of freeing their minds and encouraging imagination. Both of these books do the opposite and should be avoided.

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