Teaching the Western Canon in Schools | Katharine Birbalsingh
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2022
- Katharine Birbalsingh talks to John about the teaching methods and content used at her school, Michaela Community School, which has achieved extraordinary academic results in an underprivileged area in London. She defends the teaching of classic poetry, literature and political philosophy as undergirding a rich understanding of the modern world.
Katharine Birbalsingh is the Chair of the Social Mobility Commission and Headmistress and co-founder of Michaela Community School in Wembley, London. Michaela is known for its tough-love behaviour systems, knowledge curriculum and teaching of kindness and gratitude.
In 2017, OFSTED graded the school as “Outstanding” in every category.
Katharine studied Philosophy & Modern Languages at The University of Oxford and has always taught in inner London.
She has made numerous appearances on television and radio and has written for several UK publications. Katharine has written two books and edited a third, plus a fourth called The Power of Culture which was published in June 2020.
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Katharine Birbalsingh:
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I’m a teacher from Canada who now lives and teaches here in Australia. I found this refreshing and motivating. Really appreciated this interview. Thank you. 😊 🇨🇦
May God keep you strong and safe as you work with our children .
I listened to the whole interview/discussion on Spotify. Very much enjoyed it. Refreshing to hear ideas rooted in principle rather than strictly emotion. Thank you!
Wow, what an inspiring teacher !!
She is a treasure - a pity she is not our Minister of Education.
I'll second both of those comments. I fear tho', it'll remain a pipe dream.
Something tells me all her students are going to be better off after school.
Top marks.
"If..." is controversial? Oh, good God! Fight back!
I commend the full interview if you are in need of hope and inspiration .
Wow, you come across these educators every so often, engaged, morally oriented, intelligent, tough and tender and driven by love to make a difference. Can re-inspire you. Meanwhile likeable John beats on steadily with his pet peeves, sitting in his boat against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past.
q.v. Thomas Sowell on slavery.
Sowell is a stinking coward and Birbalsingh is a beast.
Don't be fooled.
Yes, every"household needs backbone".
Religion of some sort has to undergird any teaching of any Western Cannon. Religion has to be included or it's a waste of time. Dr. Steve Turley has an interesting video today on his channel, on how this war in Ukraine is a battle for the soul of the west and Christianity. Called "Jordan Peterson SHOCKS Interviewer on CIVIL WAR in the WEST!!!" In my opinion, the West is at heart a moral enterprise, rooted in faith. Lots of mistakes along the way, which critics jump on. But there is nothing out there that's better, and most other civilizations are far worse. Universities should go back to being run by churches, the way they started out. Big mistake, secularizing them.
That makes sense because you really can't understand most of the works of the western canon without understanding the Christian worldview.
@@mbb-- I would say the Western Worldview, which is an amalgam of Judeo-Christian traditions and Greek philosophy. Aquinas's attempt to Christianise Aristotle was not entirely successful, but at least it showed that our roots are a marriage of Hebraic and Hellenic cultures. And they are both still important.
@@mbb-- That makes no sense at all!
Guess our understanding off “sense” is completely different!
@@robertholland7558 ''The Great Code" by Northrop Frye, that book explains why you can't understand Western art, philosophy or literature or many things, without a basic understanding of the Judeo-Christian worldview implied in the Bible. It's on Jordan Peterson's reading list.
Part of the reason for the success of Woke and post-modernism is the decline of Christian religious teaching means an intellectual vacuum was created, that had to be filled with something else. Many point out that Woke is a religion of sorts, using various strands of Christian thought, to essentially create a new religion. The good side of Woke is it shows, humans crave a moral framework, to perceive reality. There seems to be something universal in humans about this, since all humans all create religious realities. This has been going on for 200,000 years modern humans have been around. Going on regardless of race or ethnicity. Same pattern repeated hundreds of thousands of times, among all the various human societies and tribes, the anthropology says.
Why? My guess is humans evolved with something like a religious sense...a search for deeper meaning is likely wired right into our biology. This created religion. Remove one religion, another just pops up to replace it....is my guess. Get rid of Christianity? A new religion will just replace it, atheism doesn't work as a conceptual framework, to understand reality. Doesn't fit out biology.
Social justice obviously has Christian roots, but removes religion, the historical source of that moral structure. Stop teaching religion, what happens? We have a generation of highly educated Woke ignoramuses', with no back story to explain the origin of their own ideas, how they came about.
It's like free speech in a way. Free speech eventually gave rise to Woke. What is the first thing they want to get rid of? Free speech...the very thing that gave rise to their own ideology. Like a deranged man who doesn't like his own Mother. Ever seen a dog chasing it's own tail? I have. Comical. Woke people claim, "There is no such thing as truth" to which I say, "that sounds like a claim about truth, Einstein"
Dog chases tail. Woke self-own themselves with their claim about truth, with one-move self-checkmates, in my opinion. 'No such thing as truth!'...they claim. In their essential claim about truth...lol
It's like a madman pointing to the sun and shouting, "There is no such thing as a sun!" ....end of my gabbing and lips flying about...
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@@TimBitts649 what on earth are you raving on about? Trying to explain something we have no understanding of, instead of just accepting that fact! Making strange assumptions, suggesting it is something that humanity need to perceive reality? Nonsense, but perhaps I am not human.
It took Britain until 2012 to finally finish paying the debt to emancipate the slaves in the American south after the US civil war. Is that taught?
How long can he patch and lie about the methodology and course of history?
Is it reasonable to teach a curriculum that Britain used millions of people from India and Africa in its wars by force? Can it be taught that apartheid in Jerusalem is now caused by the Balfour Declaration Agreement?
A fair sane person takes history with its defeats and victories and with its good and evil it is not selective.
All history is selective - it is a matter of balance.
@@saltburner2 The history that takes place in selectivity is often false, has no credibility and no room for balance in it .
@mohamed ali. Not sure when you get your facts from but the soldiers from Africa and India that fought for Britain were to the best of my knowledge all volunteers. Please post your sources.
@@wonderingalbatros3603 The number of peasants collected from all parts of Egypt and forced to serve in the ‘labour corps’ is about a quarter of a million, in addition to about one hundred thousand other peasants who formed additional auxiliary units for the British Army.
historian kyle anderson
@@mohamedali2858 Are you going to compare this to the millions of slaves exploited by muslims?
Fantastic teacher and human being, respect to her