21 August 2013... teaching children how to strike, how to protest and how businessmen are 'the enemy'....
That is what the Union UNITE want schools to do along with the teaching unions.
Utter bonkers - the Mail calls it brainwashing and that is exactly what it is and it serves no useful purpose at all except to push a certain left wing agenda.
We need to encourage children to take an interest in current affairs and key issues. We need to encourage and teach them to debate these things from different angles. We certainly do not need the kind of social engineering advocated by these union dinosaurs.
What is most dangerous about this agenda is to portray a 'them and us' attitude with businessmen and businesses as being the enemy. We need to encourage an interest in business and boost the kind of entrepreneurial spirit on which our quality of life ultimately depends. Businesses are what create all of the wealth we have, all of the public services depend on the success of British businesses so ultimately all our jobs and futures depend on business success. Damage business and we are all damaged.
When business suffers, we all suffer - surely that lesson should have got through even to these thick-headed Unions by now.
It strikes me that there are many who pepper their arguments with, "them and us" phrases and colour these characterisations of the "thems" as 'the enemy'. I hear nothing here that calls for the doing-away of such partisan phrases.
The Mail can call this whatever it likes, such is unlikely to matter to anybody except the Mail. Apart from perhaps those who use this newspaper as an adjunct to their own efforts at brainwashing.
"We need to encourage and teach..." If ever there was any drive to encourage debate, we don't get that here.
Do businesses ever need people, real, honest to goodness people? As leaders, workforce, customer base?
We 'need' carbohydrates every bit as much as we need businesses, but to thrive we really do need a balanced diet. Not the Feast-n-Fast, approach favoured of old.
I notice that even the selective quotations from those in the field of education were not as worked-up about this as the manic-Mail-mini-minded.
Oh, and. Businesses do not 'create', wealth or anything else.