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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Equality will only occur if the less able are 'carried' by the more able. Of course that will never happen.
    That's essentially the situation we have now.

    The only problem is the less able want the more able to do more carrying than they already are, and a number of the more able also think we should do more carrying providing it isn't them who actually have to do it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    That's essentially the situation we have now.

    The only problem is the less able want the more able to do more carrying than they already are, and a number of the more able also think we should do more carrying providing it isn't them who actually have to do it.
    Well put.

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    On the other hand a lot of the 'less able' think they are carrying the 'more able' ! (Depending how you define those labels)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    Birth control didn't begin in the 1960s. Richer/smarter people have been limiting the size of their families since at least 1900 or so. From one study:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865739/

    'Women who married in England in the 1860s bore an average of more than six children while their granddaughters who married in the 1910s bore fewer than three children, as the national birth-rate moved towards its nadir in 1933.'

    Some of these posts sound worryingly like the sort of race-purifying propaganda that emerged in Germany in the 1920s and 30s.
    Nothing sinister going on here Joe.

    We're simply shining a light on some sorry facts and having a good old moan about it. It's what we do best.

    I doubt the intelligent/stupid ratio has changed much over the years. We mustn't confuse 'stupid' with 'uneducated'. The women who have made a career of making babies probably decided (at about the age of twelve) that opportunities for them to make money is going to limited, and 'professional mum' is going to give them a steady(ish) income and some job security for the next 30 years or so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Len Co View Post
    On the other hand a lot of the 'less able' think they are carrying the 'more able'!
    Well some of them are expected to sweep up after the more able have been busy sorting the world out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    That's essentially the situation we have now.

    The only problem is the less able want the more able to do more carrying than they already are, and a number of the more able also think we should do more carrying providing it isn't them who actually have to do it.
    There are also a lot of the 'more able' who are pretending to be 'less able' to get something for nothing. And the health professionals have a right old time discerning the worthy from the chancers.
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    It's not possible to sort the world out. That's why I can never understand people getting in a tizzy about it: 'Trump's the President now and he's a bad man.'

    Yeah like there was never a bad man as US President before.


    It's why history should be made compulsory in schools. And proper history, too, not all that crap about what people ate and wore or what they were 'feeling'. Really pisses me off when they have these documentaries and it is all about that trivia.

    'How do you think he must have felt when he was put up for auction as a slave? It must have been awful for him.'

    Yes, no shit, sherlock, thanks for explaining that, here I was thinking it must have been the best day of his life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    It's why history should be made compulsory in schools.
    It is, in state schools at least.

    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post

    And proper history, too, not all that crap about what people ate and wore or what they were 'feeling'. Really pisses me off when they have these documentaries and it is all about that trivia.
    Here's what the National Curriculum lays down as what sort of history should be taught in schools:

    https://www.gov.uk/government/public...ammes-of-study

    'The national curriculum for history aims to ensure that all pupils:

    know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world

    know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind

    gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
    understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses

    understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed

    gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts: understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international history;
    between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and between short- and long-term timescales.'

    Now, there's a balance to be struck between, on the one hand, history as chronology, with a list of what happened when, but with little or no analysis of why these things happened, and, on the other hand, history as human experience ('imagine you are a peasant in Anglo-Saxon Britain') which risks losing sight of the big picture. Also, once GCSEs/A Levels loom, you're going to have to narrow the focus somewhat, to give pupils a chance to assimilate a reasonable amount of knowledge on which they can be tested.

    I suspect that, now as always, children learn a fair bit of history at school, and that most of them will forget almost all of it once exams are over with and they leave school. Same goes for maths, physics, Eng Lit, Geography and woodwork.

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    I don't think it is compulsory for all 5 years of secondary though?

    In any case they are obviously failing, I had a youngster asking me who Hitler was the other day, and was he anything to do with World War 2.

    In fact even amongst people older than me there seems to be a huge dearth of historical knowledge, substituted instead with absurd lefty revisionist history taken directly from the Daily Mirror Book Of Facts.
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