Our GCSE students don't understand lust and desire, say Orthodox schools

by Guest Sat Jun 13, 2015 8:48 am

Love may have been described as a universal language, but some Jewish Orthodox schools believe it’s one their GCSE students do not speak. Several faith schools are reported to have complained that love poetry in GCSE English courses is inappropriate for their pupils because adolescent lust and desire is not something they will properly understand.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/our-gcse-students-dont-understand-lust-and-desire-say-orthodox-schools-10317314.html

What a copout and more reason why we should not have faith schools.

by Guest Sat Jun 13, 2015 9:44 am

wow this is low even for you didge any excuse to have a pop..

it still remains that many faith schools still get the best results of any schools around..

would you agree if faith had the final say and all schools who taught science were closed..

by Guest Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:09 am

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:wow this is low even for you didge any excuse to have a pop..

it still remains that many faith schools still get the best results of any schools around..

would you agree if faith had the final say and all schools who taught science were closed..

of course not he is a bigot and an intolerant geek

by Guest Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:10 am

There is nothing low here at all.
The schools are making excuses that pupils cannot understand something if they have not experienced it, which is absurd. People have read and understand poems about the trenches in the First World War, without experiencing them. This is religious people trying to once again seek privileges where they are not deserved or required.
Again religious schools only do well because they discriminate on selection and thus end up having the best pupils from the start, a very unfair advantage.
So none of infantile accusations of bigot from you two immature children have any validity and are as per usual mere deflections from the points at hand.

by Tommy Monk Sat Jun 13, 2015 2:24 pm

Lust and desire are both certainly different from love.

by Eilzel Sat Jun 13, 2015 2:32 pm

Tommy Monk wrote:Lust and desire are both certainly different from love.

Agreed, but poetry tends to concern itself with the latter, so I don't really get why the Orthodox schools are complaining about it (well actually I do, deeply religious groups tend to show nothing but revulsion to anything concerning intimacy and feelings).

by Guest Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:44 pm

Vicar of Dibley wrote:
heavenlyfatheragain wrote:wow this is low even for you didge any excuse to have a pop..

it still remains that many faith schools still get the best results of any schools around..

would you agree if faith had the final say and all schools who taught science were closed..

of course not he is a bigot and an intolerant

that goes without saying...

by Guest Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:47 pm

I wonder why the bible has four words for love and we only have one, that must because we don't know what love is but the bible does...

by Guest Sat Jun 13, 2015 5:08 pm

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:I wonder why the bible has four words for love and we only have one, that must because we don't know what love is but the bible does...

"Sanskrit has 96 words for love; ancient Persian has 80, Greek three, and English only one. This is indicative of the poverty of awareness or emphasis that we give to that tremendously important realm of feeling. Eskimos have 30 words for snow, because it is a life-and-death matter to them to have exact information about the element they live with so intimately. If we had a vocabulary of 30 words for love ... we would immediately be richer and more intelligent in this human element so close to our heart. An Eskimo probably would die of clumsiness if he had only one word for snow; we are close to dying of loneliness because we have only one word for love. Of all the Western languages, English may be the most lacking when it comes to feeling." - Robert Johnson, "The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden"

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