“This is
the opposite to the point of a university… this is creating
a
generation of people who won’t know anything”.
Dr
Bella d’Abrera
The IPA’s Dr Bella
d’Abrera joined The Young IPA Podcast to discuss her recent
article in the Daily Telegraph on the University of Sydney’s
‘Unlearn Campaign’:
Here’s what she
had to say:
“They have to unlearn everything
that they know. They have to break the old rules, and then start again. It’s a
crazy idea of starting at Year Zero.”
“Everything they know about
climate, about love, about medicine. Everything that they know, they have to
unlearn.”
“This is the opposite to the
point of a university…this is creating a generation of people who won’t know
anything. And it’s quite terrifying, because how are they going to make
decisions if they don’t know anything? How are they going to be leaders of the
country?” ….
[End of quote]
The ‘art’ of unlearning is not
restricted to Australian university students, however.
For, as Dr. d’Abrera will go on
to remark in a more recent article for The
Daily Telegraph (Sydney), “The great unlearning going on in Australian schools”:
“What a coincidence: Even as our children
are being encouraged to become ever more politically active for progressive
causes, their skills in literacy and maths are declining …”.
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