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page 30, see link to full book, ten years to save the west
LIZ TRUSS 10 YEARS TO SAVE THE WEST
https://archive.org/details/liz-truss-10-years-to-save-the-west/page/n29/mode/1up
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The progressive movement in education arose out of trends in postmodernist philosophy, pioneered by the thinker Michel Foucault, which led to the notion that truth and morality are relative, and there is therefore no space for evidence and objective truth.° Instead, we should all celebrate finding our “own truth,” whatever that is. Foucault also pioneered the crazy thinking about sex and gender ideology that now permeates the educational debate.*
The age-old resistance of young people to taking on the values handed down from older generations has become baked into an educational philosophy that says such generational transmission is somehow regressive and wrong. This sort of attitude has an instinctive appeal to a lot of people, who see it as being about overthrowing hierarchies and rejecting tradition in favor of free-thinking discovery. But taken to its full extent, as it has been in some quarters, it involves the undermining of historical and scientific facts.
The prevalence of this worldview reveals a deeper unease about our culture and values. We can see it in the obsession with condemning our history and promoting collective guilt through campaigns to “decolonize the curriculum.” This is portrayed in the United Kingdom as a progressive movement to contextualize our imperial past, but it is in fact an ideological attack on that past that promotes a new narrative in which Western countries are always the villains. The scientific, industrial, and technological advances that made the West and now most of the world prosperous are turned into parables on the evils of capitalism and racism. This repudiation of the Enlightenment is astonishingly self-defeating. There is a distinct air of self-loathing about it that is characteristic of the Left.
The most pernicious part of this ideology is the suggestion that in the modern world, there is no need for children to be taught facts. After all, they can look things up on the internet, so we are far better off teaching them skills and encouraging their creativity. We need them to become free spirits with inquiring minds, not an army of drones reciting lists of dates and facts,
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