This is what they refuse to teach at Eton

off topic but…..

“at Queen’s University Belfast we’d like to set up a discussion group to increase our understanding of the functioning of the economy. One of the first topics we’d like to discuss is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) as presented in the book ‘The Deficit Myth’ by Stephanie Kelton. We’d like to gain a deeper understanding of the merits and potential shortcomings of the claims made in this book and by MMT more broadly.

We will start off the discussion by having Professor Richard Murphy from City University London summarize the main ideas of MMT and Professor Cédric Tille from the Graduate Institute in Geneva offering his reflections.”

Tickets to join this zoom conference are available here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/modern-monetary-theory-tickets-129722955853

“It is meant to be an informal exchange of ideas.”

“The difference between Eton and the state sector being that in the state no single one of the teachers would believe that this idea was even worth presenting so obviously wrong it is.”

The main difference is that the people who think that in the state sector keep their mouths shut. They know that they’ll get in the shit for it. Private schools used to be different, but they’re pretty much in the same place as state ones, teaching the same stuff now. The results mostly correlate with how smart the kids were when they arrived, social attitudes mirror the state school indoctrination, so why spend the eye-watering sums.

You can see why Jordan Peterson and The Last Psychiatrist exist though? If schools are going to avoid the simple physical facts and their effects on behaviour (sperm is cheap, eggs are not, chemical levels of testosterone and estrogen are different) then someone else is going to do the job. The old “men are like X and women are like Y” was crude, but more accurate than the “we’re all the same and it’s society” thing.

. . . so why spend the eye-watering sums.

Contacts and networking, old boy.

Woke is high status now, the religion of the upper middle classes. It has spread like wildfire, or rather, like fashion. No-one wants to be seen to laugh or even disbelieve, especially when it can get you fired. It really is remarkable how quickly and widely this nonsense has spread, and makes you understand how irrational lunatics like the Khmer Rouge happened. Humanity are infinitely stupid and evil, anything is possible.

Anyway, we won’t be winning any more battles on the playing fields of Eton by the looks of it.

Surely it would be educational for pupils to be exposed to at least one flawed idea, or is the goal to teach them that the schoolis infallible.

And how principled is Mr Knowland? This seems a vital piece of information to the story. What does he do if the pupils say he is spouting nonsense? That would be the real test of free speech.

Dearieme

But let’s not forget Orwell’s re-casting of the fabrication:

‘Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.’

Andy xT

Thanks for the link! “Diversity built Britain” is an epic and shocking lie, worthy of a totalitarian state. The British state began to emerge with the Union of the Crowns, 1603. For the next 350 years, the British population was ethnicly homogenous – and the population of England was ethnicly homogenous for nine centuries after the Norman Conquest.

Reminds me of the numerous clips of Jordan Peterson owning leftists/feminists when they make a claim & he calmly smacks them upside the head with a few facts and some data.