The Common Room, Summarised by Centrist
The general idea is that teachers aren’t there just to transmit knowledge to students, but rather to condition students to want a different kind of society.
While it is important for children to engage in current affairs and issues that affect society, perhaps we need to ensure we get the basics right first so that they can properly engage with these issues.
We owe it to New Zealand children to be firm about the purpose of education, and that’s to provide, at the most basic level, children with strong literacy and numeracy skills, and the ability to actually think.
