What do you think is more important for the future of education in Australia?
Should Australia be investing in Tradies…or scholars?
Kevin Rudd says he’ll spend 2 and a half billion dollars on trade training centres in schools, while the coalition’s big focus will be to sink $5 billion dollars into universities.
Where do you want to see the money go?
Maybe you’re a university student and you can see areas where the money is desperately needed…OR maybe you’re a trade worker and can’t find the workers who are appropriately skilled in a trade?
If your school had offered you the opportunity to learn a trade, would you have been interested? Mr Rudd says “Not every Australian kid wants to go to university and this plan responds to their need."
Or is the money better spent on infrastructure and research in Australian universities?
After the budget was announced, Sydney university Vice Chancellor Gavin Brown said: "I seriously believe this budget is the best news for Australian universities for decades."
Labor has a university placements and the coalition have a trade education policy, but it seems that they’re both emphasising one over the other.
Funding for universities or funding for trade education - which proposal excites you more and why?
Comments (1)
In education particularly the science and also to a large degree in English and Mathematics their has occurred a shift in two areas. Linguistic analysis mathematics and the sciences all lay claim to a story of origins equal to the Bible. Biology reduces man to an accident of evolution, chemistry to the DNA template and physics to mass or energy all shaped into its current complexity over time purely by chance.
So it doesn't matter whether you attend a Christian school or a secular school, the basic final reality that is taught, is the 'impersonal' plus 'time' plus 'chance' systems of the sciences and the new age and pantheist belief systems.
Today the God concept or God consciousness has vanished and our world is post-Christian (no God concept). So our education system beginning at Day teach our children that the final reality is the 'impersonal' plus 'time' plus 'chance universe.
Today abortion and euthanasia to some extent are ethical means to a relative individualistic end for whatever reasons. The consensus in society is post-Christian as a result of our education system. By the time people get to university, the 'impersonal' plus 'time' plus 'chance' universe is the default methodology in all peoples minds.
If we the Christian do not understand where our non-Christian reasons, then we will be speaking largely to ourselves. The concept of truth in society is based upon Georg Hegel's synthesis and not the biblical antithesis where two opposites provide people with the certainty of knowledge. Science once only dealt with the machine part of creation. Now the scientists' have dragged the mind of man into the machine in the scineces of phsycology sociology and anthropology.
I think we need to understand the logical conclusions of what is taught to our children before we impliment them. Otherwise our education system is simply teaching our Christian children that there is no God. The sciences are all philosophical positions on origins before the are actual science disciplines. Francis Crick when asked why he studied biology said this, "To put it into few words I would have to say I study biology for philosophical reasons or what you might call religious reasons."
Richard Dawkins would say the same and find the same personal tension that Darwin Crick and B F Skinner felt. If our world is indeed post-Christian as I have described, then our churches and colleges are preparing their people to preach to a generation that no longer exists.
Posted by Hona Wikeepa | May 27, 2007 8:11 PM
Posted on May 27, 2007 20:11