A new education system will mend a broken world

Written by Professor Gloria Moss PhD; FCIPD on January 12, 2024. Posted in Current News

Broken systems: a constant in modern life: Growing numbers of people have awakened to the deceit underpinning modern life, whether it be in Judicial systems the police, governments, the medical system, the media or education.

Of course much of the past is also questionable, with Voltaire famously describing History as ‘the lie commonly agreed upon’.

Do we need proof of the deceits perpetrated on us?   Where science is concerned, Richard Horton, current Editor-in-chief of The Lancet, stated in 2015 that ‘Science has taken a turn towards darkness’;   where medicine is concerned, and medical trials in particular, John Bergman wrote that ‘The entire system is not broken, it is evil’;  where the justice system is concerned, a former British attorney general, Dominic Grieve, wrote in 2021 that ‘For the ordinary public who encounter the justice system, its growing inadequacies and delays – and the injustice that can flow from them – are real’.

Then, when it comes to governments, former Professor Politics at Sheffield University, Piers Robinson wrote (Robinson et al,2018) that ‘deception is understood as a necessary and justifiable part of politics’. The process of vote rigging and the blackmailing of politicians must be seen as part of the weaponry used.

As for the police, a Gallup poll in the US in 2020 revealed that ‘America is losing confidence in its police. According to a recent Gallup poll, public perception of law enforcement is at its lowest point since the organization began tracking that question twenty‐​seven years ago. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans do not express confidence in the police’

In terms of the media, a mainstream journalist in Britain was writing even as far back as 2019 that:  ‘From the Sun’s lies about Hillsborough to the BBC’s failure to expose Jimmy Savile as early as they might, to the fevered enthusiasm for the Iraq war that gripped much of Fleet Street, the British public has had plenty of good reasons to distrust journalists’.

Finally, where education is concerned, the sad turn that Universities is revealed in this article from October 2023 highlighting censorship of books at Cambridge University, questionable methodologies behind university league tables and Gates funding at a little under 500 universities;  a newsletter from Truth University in July 2023 featured the President of Stanford University stepping down because of failure to respond to calls to correct mistakes in some of his peer reviewed papers, and features also the case of a Harvard Professor who had doctored datasets in articles concerning honesty!

In terms of schools, the Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice in Britain wrote in January 2024 of the ‘fundamental work to be done in rebuilding the contract between families and schools’.

The dissatisfaction felt by parents has fuelled a growing trend to home-school with the number of young people being homeschooled in Britain in 2023, 82,000, being slightly over 150% more than the figure for 2018-2019.  A similar increase has been found in the US, with the number being home-schooled increasing from 2.5million in 2018 to 3.7million in 2023.

A total of 14.5% of parents supported the move to home-schooling on account of concerns over academic quality.  That term was not defined but may refer to low standards of mastery, the content of courses in school and /or the lack of a Critical Thinking approach to topics.

Effects of broken systems: The broken elements of society described above have a common theme uniting them, namely the subversion of truth and truthful endeavour aka, Critical Thinking.   Indeed, a former head of the CIA, William Casey, the 13^th Director from 1981 until 1987, was famously heard to say at a meeting that

‘We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.’   Repetition of the falsehoods by education, governments and the media are the tools used, with repetition reinforcing the lies across these sectors.  As Goebells said, ‘if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes truth’.

What is the effect of this deceit?  Well, according to Renaissance playwright, Ben Johnson, ‘without truth, all the actions of mankind are craft, malice’.  With truth as the lodestar, however, society can embark on the path to perfection.  As John Locke wrote in a letter of 29 October 1703 to Anthony Collins, ‘To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues’.

So, deceit leads to malice while truth leads to virtues, so who could not be on the side of truth?  Indeed, Socrates is alleged to have stated that ‘A life without investigation is not worth living’ and so all those shunning truth are squandering their lives while those who stand up for truth – the main characters in the landmark novels Nineteen Eighty Four; Brave New World; Fahrenheit 451) – are heroes because they have resisted the multiple pressures to conform, suppress their critical thinking and with that, avoid the truth.

It is an unavoidable reality that broken systems and the avoidance of the truth, produce a society rooted in deceit and malice.  These can translate into fake agendas which can in turn attack our freedoms and our ability to survive.

Think of the Climate Change narrative, for example, one on which there is no scientific consensus, and see how this has spawned grotesque restrictions on human travel and eating habits (with the death-knell sounded for petrol cars, cheaper to run and less dangerous than EVs, and nutrient-rich meat demonised, with the threat that cattle will be removed from grass fields, and these rendered less productive), making ill-health and famine likely scenarios.  So, this fake narrative amounts to an assault on life as we know it, including the food to sustain that life.

Think also of the Coronavirus that has never been isolated and analysed according to Freedom of Information Requests to governments and the dire consequences of the alleged pandemic in terms of Lockdowns, health (with the risks of marks, tests and experimental jabs) and people’s ability to operate normally, both from a personal, family and business perspective.   So, this fake narrative amounts to an assault on people’s lives and wellbeing, including their basic freedoms.

So, the move away from Truth can – and almost certainly will – destroy humanity unless we restore the truth.   We have reached a crisis point but a shift in the school and university education system can take us to where we need to be.

Transforming education to heal society: An transformed education system rooted in sound principles of Critical Thinking, Evidence-based thinking and Rigour will inevitably set us down the right path.   Critical Thinking is at the heart of this, with the freedom to question beliefs and knowledge absolutely central to this.

Einstein’s motto to ‘Question Everything’, must be central to education at all levels, from Primary, to Secondary education through to University-level studies for, as psychologist Carl Jung said, ‘The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth’.  Even the BBC’s Bitesize Learning Resources pages state that: ‘Critical Thinking involves questioning rather than simply accepting information that you hear or read’.

As it is, there is little emphasis on Critical Thinking today.  One commentator, Robert Burrowes, has stated that ‘The freedom to think for oneself is strangled at a very young age’ and the National Curriculum in the UK makes only cursory mention of Critical Thinking.  And that an OECD study from August 2022 found that only 45% of graduates demonstrated Critical Thinking skills.  This was a six-country study including the UK and the US and a sample of 800,000 graduates so this is a very significant finding.

As Einstein said ‘It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education’, especially living in a society where questioning elements in the system leaves you labelled a ‘Covid denier’, ‘Climate denier’, ‘Vaccine denier’ or ‘Far Right’.  These put-down phrases sideline debate and Critical Thinking, two elements that will transform our education systems.

These steps to a better society, via a better education system, are shown in the diagram below (Figure 1 below:

The priorities for School Education must be to impart skills of Critical Thinking and also skills and knowledge rooted in rigour and high standards.  Given the parlous state of School Learning Resources currently – highlighted in a report on the contents of secondary school textbooks that found them to be replete with errors and omissions – it is vital to create new Learning Resources for schools.

These should be rooted in rigour, evidence-based thinking and Critical Thinking so that dogma is avoided and students can do what is theirs by right, namely to think critically and not have their minds controlled by powerful interest groups.

Since moreover the publishers of the current textbooks have close links with school examination boards (with model examination answers closely linked to the content of these school textbooks), the creation of new textbooks would need to be linked to a new system of school exams.

Moving now to Higher Education, we know that the knowledge emerging from Universities becomes embedded in the knowledge-base of society as a whole, so that the research activity of universities underpins the beliefs held by society.  In this way, universities have an importance that go way beyond the people who study within the system.

Now, since the research undertaken in universities is supported financially either by State monies (from so-called ‘Research Councils’) or from Corporate interests, the research conducted will need need to fall within the paradigms favoured by the state and corporate interests.  This places strong constraints on the outcomes of research supported by this type of funding.

So, Government or European Union-sponsored research can be expected to strongly favour the Anthropogenic Climate Change narrative as well as that of the benefits of vaccination, and the knowledge that Bill Gates funding has underpinned research at 500 universities is a sign of how far Corporate interests have gained a foothold in academia, and constrained the development of alternative perspectives.

People and society have been left out of decision-making process, with the media popularising the view that decision-making must be the preserve of ‘experts’ when in fact Critical Thinking members of the pubic could be given a voice.

Given these points, the priorities for a new system of Higher Education should be to:

• institute unbiased sources of funding with the public contributing directly to projects

• to modify the current system of Peer Review, instituting perhaps the system used in the early days of the journal Medical Hypotheses where a trusted journals editor was responsible for decisions concerning publication.

Both of these initiatives would unleash new research findings that could transform our world and the knowledge base on which society relies.

Join us in transforming education: In the past, corporate interests such as the Rockefellers built up the education systems that are now past their sell-by dates.   We need to start afresh.  At the Higher Education level, this can be done by building up a new University (www.truthuniversity.co.uk), undertaking new, unbiased research and building new degrees, such as one in Natural Medicine.   Where School Education is concerned, we need to create new Learning Resources for Home Education, and a schools n Examination System to run alongside that.

These initiatives will transform society as a whole – not just the children, students and researchers working within these systems – so please join with us in building a better world by contributing in any way that you come.   This could be through ideas, through donations or through contributing your skills.  We would love to hear from you so please contact us at [email protected]

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About the author: Professor Gloria Moss Ph.D. FCIPD is the author of over 70 peer review journals and conference papers. She is the author of eight books, many published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. Her latest book, written with Katherine Armitage, is ‘Light Bulb Moments and the Power of Critical Thinking’ (2023), published by Truth University Press, the publisher also of ‘The Dark Side of Academia: How Truth is Suppressed’.

Copies of both books can be obtained from the publisher, Truth University, by emailing: [email protected].  Alternatively, you can purchase it direct from Amazon. 

Note that Truth University’s exciting next ‘Questioning History’ conferences is taking place on 2-3 March in Berkshire, Britain. Speakers include Mark Devlin, Matt Sergiou and Gloria Moss and Early Bird rates are available until the end of January 2023.  For details, just email [email protected].

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