Insidious education

"The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."
H.L. Mencken

"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." Benjamin Disraeli, 1874

Presently education is the exclusive competence of each Member State, yet only last November, the 11th to be precise, a conference took place at RAF Museum, Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire, TF11 8UP entitled: "All About EU : Raising Awareness of the European Union across the Curriculum and Whole School Community". Funded by the European Union, it covered raising awareness of the EU in the primary and in the secondary curriculum.


So children attending schools in this country will be educated indoctrinated with 'the EU is good', which probably explains why governments have steadily deleted British history from the curriculum. I wonder how many parents were aware of this conference or are aware of just what their children are taught? If education is an exclusive competence of Member States, just what were the government and education authorities doing allowing such a conference with that agenda? That this was held in association with a Conservative-run council is not really that surprising, especially now their leader has admitted that it is a party only moderately eurosceptic.