Stuart Weighton provides a broad overview of the history of modern, technologically advanced society, its progress, contradictions and problems, highlighting the benefits that have accrued to society from the emancipatory power of education.
He concludes that every child should have access to the best that has ever been conceived and known.
Weighton highlights the decline of modern education in Scotland and its negative and narrow view of the past, which teaches a one-sided and dark view of history, resulting in morality replacing knowledge and limiting rather than encouraging critical thinking.
Scottish education is now a “commitment to social justice” Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and addressing the supposed climate emergency. The creeping infiltration of this new ideology can be seen in the introduction of Critical Race Theory into schools, a racist philosophy that invites racial hypersensitivity and increases, not reduces, racial divisions. Terms such as “white privilege” and the need to “decolonize” the curriculum have also crept into education systems, curricula, and state and other guidance to teachers and principals.
Sex education is being presented in a way that goes against the very concept of childhood. At the same time, as educational standards decline, children are being infantilized. As it evolves, therapeutic education increasingly sees concepts as threatening, protecting children from challenging knowledge and with predictable effects on children's intellectual development.
As a result, education is changing into indoctrination.
Stuart Weighton has tried to subvert this agenda. Scottish Education UnionThe new organisation aims to engage parents, grandparents and the wider community to promote education in schools and the wider society.
