{"id":50,"date":"2004-08-31T13:36:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/08\/31\/defending-british-culture\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T13:36:35","slug":"defending-british-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/08\/defending-british-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending British culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/thinktanks\/story\/0,10538,1293999,00.html\">The Guardian reports<\/a> that the right-wing thinktank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civitas.org.uk\">Civitas<\/a> is launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmodelschool.co.uk\">its own primary school<\/a> to preserve &#8220;British culture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a primary school. Yet apparently &#8220;The final aim of education is the formation of strong moral character, good manners, and the develop\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdment of well-informed judgement. Good citizenship is not a subject of the school curriculum, but an aspect of conduct and behaviour that arises from knowledge of the foundations of the culture, its history, values, and institutions.&#8221; The children are 4-5 years old. Are they actually aware of their own national identity at this age? I&#8217;m pretty certain I wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to mention Civitas&#8217; record on pronouncing against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civitas.org.uk\/pdf\/BrowneEconomicsImmigration.pdf\">immigration (pdf)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civitas.org.uk\/pubs\/EUFactsheet.php\">Europe<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civitas.org.uk\/pubs\/experiments.php\">single parent families<\/a> in statistic-ridden pamphlets designed to appeal to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\">Daily Mail<\/a>&#8216;s leader writers and confuse the actual facts.<\/p>\n<p>Now is it just the liberal in me, or does this sound just a tad like they want to brainwash these little kiddies at a nice early age, and produce a generation of little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oswaldmosley.com\">Oswald Mosleys<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that the right-wing thinktank Civitas is launching its own primary school to preserve &#8220;British culture&#8221;. It&#8217;s a primary school. Yet apparently &#8220;The final aim of education is the formation of strong moral character, good manners, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/08\/defending-british-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}