Comments on: Erica Stanford’s abdication of responsibility

By: Greywarbler

Greywarbler — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:57:15 +0000

I’ll put Martin LeFevre in at the bottom here – shame if the post ended up with a sting in its tail from some of the pathetics that come here, full of self-importance and something else of not much substance apart from their fatheads. But enough time spent for no worthwhile reason so here is something that will be interesting, LeFevre’s always are.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00022/education-involves-two-kinds-of-learning.htm
…The disaster of modern education extends beyond America of course. An education writer in Britain bluntly defined schooling in the UK as “a curriculum that is overly academic and culturally barren, with teachers treated as robots.”
Better robots than propagandists, as the Trump Administration is hell-bent on installing from elementary school through university. Then again, most American teachers have always been propagandists for “the American way of life,” the core values of which have been materialism, capitalism and consumerism….

…But with AI, for better, and so far for worse becoming the repository of human knowledge, humankind’s basic relationship to knowledge itself has to change.
Yes, “children “crave a knowledge of the real world,” and need “to be given a knowledge of money, law and legal rights, politics and voting, and skill at finding a job.”

However, to use that or any other knowledge wisely, and navigate and transform a corrupt and corrosive global society (not to mention being masters rather than slaves to AI), parents and teachers have to be able to transcend knowledge, and gain insight and liberation from their own conditioning.
Attentive self-knowing is something that can only be taught by example. Sadly, whether in the home or in the schools, few parents or teachers understand its supreme importance.
The planet is on fire and the world is in chaos. And the online world has bled into the ‘real world’ to the point of a distinction without a difference.
Never before in human history has there been a greater urgency in adults for a practical, applied understanding in the education of children of the difference between the cumulative learning of knowledge, and the non-accumulative learning of attention and insight.

By: B Awakesky

B Awakesky — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:11:44 +0000

In reply to Bob the first.

Save your criticism for ‘Im right’ Bob the knob ,,,,,, that idiot can’t even write down ‘ I’m ‘ correctly….

…. and I never criticise spelling, as that is a petty little knobs activity ,,, but a two letter word like I’m, and from a person who pretends they are correct on everything…. talk about stupid :0

By: Bob the first

Bob the first — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:42:27 +0000

If you are referring to gordon without a capital G you are incorrect, gordon himself doesn’t use a capital G.

By: Bob the first.

Bob the first. — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:49:44 +0000

In reply to Luxative. Where?

By: Luxative

Luxative — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:22:43 +0000

In reply to Bob the first. If you're going to throw stones Bob at least use correct capitalisation!

By: Bob the first

Bob the first — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:44:52 +0000

gordon your atrocious spelling and grammar rule out any comments you make on issues of education.

By: gordon walker

gordon walker — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:19:03 +0000

Another in the growing list of really shit ministers in this government .Before the election I was concerned for our brown ,female ,workers populations ,never in my wildest dreams did I see the women in government would attack our children with such ferver .We are witnessing our own form of genercide ,where we will have all kids living in poverty .We now see homeless ,hungry ,and now education deprived kids as our future and these so called mothers that are the ministers leading the charge are glee full about what they are doing every day .

By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:19:14 +0000

Half of those ‘words’ aren’t words. What’s the point of that? There must be better examples which are real words.
OK, so they can pronounce those ‘words’ but obviously comprehending the words doesn’t matter?

Reading and Comprehension is what children need to learn, Erica. Your phonics is only half the picture, less than that.
Also, if they are required to pronounce non-words, what’s so devastatingly dreadful about a few Māori words? They are a great deal more relevant than non-words.
I would NEVER waste children’s time expecting them to learn non-words which are of no use to them at all.

That’s just stupid and if she thinks that proves she’s improving literacy she’s a bigger fool than I thought.
Complete amateur, like the rest of them. Another deluded Spin-ister, Spin-ister or Education.
We can make up non-words too, Erica. You’re pathetic!

Paul, Stanford doesn’t stand for children. She stands for her foreign donors and masters who want unthinking factory fodder. She is wasting our time.

By: my name is nobody

my name is nobody — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:43:48 +0000

what the eff is this? half of those syllables/words or phonetic sounds don’t exist in English. thank fuck my kids completed their schooling years ago.

By: Justme

Justme — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:23:09 +0000

I need to add but look at Luxon’s eyes in the above photo. He is looking Dead from the Head Down in regards to whatever HIS government(which includes ACT and NZ First)does to this country.

He is after all onto a good thing i.e Taxpayer funded accommodation, meals at Bellamys, overseas travel, hotel, Transport by limo, meals at Michelin star restaurants rather than going to work at McDonalds for a Pre-election Photo Opportunity, Pavlova Photo Opportunities up a mountain . You name it and Luxon has probably Not Paid a Cent Out of HIS OWN POCKET for what he deems himself Entitled to.

And so whilst he pretends to care I doubt if ever he would. Will we again see him and family in matching Silk Peejays in yet another Pavlova Moment Photo Opportunity???!!!! We shouldn’t put anything past Luxon because after all Luxon is ALL ABOUT LUXON.