Teachers at Work Unite to Shape the Nation SADTU slogan The aim of education shall be to teach the youth to love their people and their culture, to honour human brotherhood, liberty and peace. The Freedom Charter, Congress of the People, 1955 The article by Maryke Bailey published today in the "Daily Maverick" blogsite is very confused and confusing. Hence I have removed the surplus material so as to get to the meaning of the article. In the process I have reduced it from 1424 words to 89. The reduced version is given below, together with a link to the long form, for those who have the inclination and the time. Ms Bailey, who has been working at the Wits School of Education, clearly does not agree with the words of the Freedom Charter, quoted above. The historians of Wits University, for example Professor Emeritus Bruce Murray and Professor Noor Nieftagodien (Saturday Star article, 19 July 2014) also don't want history to be taught in schools. These liberals do not want to teach the history of the freedom struggle. They do not want "to teach the youth to love their people," as the Freedom Charter would do. They want the youth to love some other people, with some other history. The teaching of South Africa's history is time and again being postponed. It is being compromised by diversions. Therefore the history of the liberation struggle will most probably have to be researched and taught outside of the existing institutions. The history of the existing institutions is that they are opposed to collecting the history of the freedom struggle. Ms Bailey is reproducing their point of view. By the way, from that same point of view, she has nothing to fear from the Department of Basic Education. The DBE is also procrastinating. Bailey and the DBE are both part of the same burial-of-revolutionary-history project. History can shape the future Maryke Bailey, Daily Maverick, Johannesburg, 31 October 2015 Many South Africans aren't aware that the Department of Basic Education is considering introducing history as a compulsory subject. Studying history is dangerous. I would rather not have history taught at all, than history taught badly. It can too easily become a state weapon to brainwash our nation. I do not want to see history as a compulsory subject in the Further Education and Training curriculum because history should not be taught to enhance 'national pride' or 'patriotism'. You want to brainwash our youth and create a docile nation. From: http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-10-29-feesmustfall-teachers- view-history-can-re-shape-the-future/#.VjQ4X7crK00 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
