no events match your query! Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.  Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters
Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'
Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.
Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.
Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023, It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda. [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.
The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep. The Saker >> Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005 RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony Waiting for SIPO Anthony Public Inquiry >> Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Sunday September 14, 2025 23:10 Britain Bans Israelis From Prestigious Military Academy Sun Sep 14, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
In a move slammed as a "profoundly dishonourable act of disloyalty to an ally at war", Britain has banned Israelis from its top defence college over the Gaza conflict.
The post Britain Bans Israelis From Prestigious Military Academy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Funerals Should Comply With Net Zero, Says Labour Sun Sep 14, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
The cremation industry is facing millions in extra costs and doubled cremation times as Labour pushes eco coffins and no-gas ovens in pursuit of Ed Miliband's Net Zero dream.
The post Funerals Should Comply With Net Zero, Says Labour appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Is the Death of Reading Inevitable? Sun Sep 14, 2025 15:00 | Dr Nicholas Tate
Reading is slipping away from children and adults alike, with serious literature pushed to the margins; Dr Nicholas Tate argues we need schools, universities and classics to bring it back.
The post Is the Death of Reading Inevitable? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Higher Taxes Will Not Raise More Money, Arthur Laffer Warns Reeves Sun Sep 14, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Top US economist Arthur Laffer, the man behind the Laffer curve and once an adviser to Reagan and Thatcher, says Rachel Reeves is pushing Britain past the critical point where higher taxes actually bring in less money.
The post Higher Taxes Will Not Raise More Money, Arthur Laffer Warns Reeves appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. New Peter Mandelson revelations Pile Pressure on Starmer Sun Sep 14, 2025 11:00 | Toby Young
Starmer is under increasing pressure as the Sunday Times reveals he knew about Mandelson's links with Epstein and his business dealing with China before he appointed him. How much longer can the Prime Minister survive?
The post New Peter Mandelson revelations Pile Pressure on Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >> | EducationEducation is one of those key things in life. While the basics of food and shelter are fundamental closely followed by health, education is probably next and is a key to how life unfolds. We must not be caught up with the idea of interchanging the word education and school as they are not the same thing. On this page, we present some of the ideas behind John Taylor Gatto (1935 - 2018) who was a teacher in New York city and a great educator. He, as he said himself, taught in the best and the worst schools and three times won the New York city's Teacher of the Year award. After he quit teaching he started to investigate the history of why compulsory school was setup and he spent the rest of his life trying to undo the harm that schools does. Gatto through his essays, books and many interviews has tried to convey what education should be really about and it should be something we take ownership of ourselves and take on for our entire life. The material on the rest of the page is taken from: https://www.garynorth.com/public/18741.cfm
There is a website dedicated to John Taylor Gatto at: https://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
Link to one of his most famous essay's: Against School
See also the Wikipedia page Waldorf Schools which are based on the work of Rudolf Steiner.or better still go to the Waldorf Foundation for Education website.
John Taylor Gatto died at age 82 on October 25.He taught at the New York City public school system for 26 years. Three times he won the city's Teacher of the Year award. Once he won the New York state Teacher of the Year award. Shortly after he won these final two awards, he quit teaching as a career. He made his announcement in a Wall Street Journal article, "I Quit, I Think." You can read it here: https://www.garynorth.com/public/18740.cfm In a fine obituary of Gatto on the website of the Foundation for Economic Education, Brittany Hunter wrote this: After three decades in the classroom, Gatto realized that the public school system was squashing individualism more than it was educating students and preparing them for the real world. To make matters worse, his later research would reveal that this dumbing down was not just by accident, but by design. Gatto dedicated the rest of his life to repairing the damage done by the public education system. Feeling the education system was beyond repair, Gatto could no longer in good conscience be an active participant. Rather than sending his letter of resignation to his superiors in his school district, he sent a copy of “I Quit, I Think” to the Wall Street Journal, where it was published as an op-ed on July 25, 1991. In his biting resignation, he wrote: I’ve come slowly to understand what it is I really teach: A curriculum of confusion, class position, arbitrary justice, vulgarity, rudeness, disrespect for privacy, indifference to quality, and utter dependency. I teach how to fit into a world I don’t want to live in. I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t train children to wait to be told what to do; I can’t train people to drop what they are doing when a bell sounds; I can’t persuade children to feel some justice in their class placement when there isn’t any, and I can’t persuade children to believe teachers have valuable secrets they can acquire by becoming our disciples. That isn’t true.
Gatto dedicated the rest of his life to repairing the damage done by the public education system. He wrote several books on his experience in the classroom including Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling and Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling. His book The Underground History of American Education is perhaps the most accurate and damning history of the American education system that has ever been written.
Here, we see what made him different. Warning: you will figure out in the first three minutes how you got shafted in school. What went wrong? Gatto said it was planned. Here is a seven-minute video. It is an extract from his Underground History. His theory: schooling is a means of producing docile, obedient workers and citizens. He cites primary sources from influential American educators. For those who have read R. J. Rushdoony's earlier book, The Messianic Character of American Education (1963), all this will be familiar. It started in the late 1830's in Massachusetts. Rushdoony followed the confessions of faith of two dozen progressive educators. Gatto followed the money. He did great work in the public schools. He did greater work outside them. Links https://www.henireland.org -Home Educaiton Network Ireland https://hslda.org/post/ireland -Legal status and resources on homeschooling in Ireland https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/irish-mother-of-six-jailed-for-homeschooling -Irish mother of six jailed for homeschooling (2014) https://wicklowSudburySchool.com/ -Wicklow Sudbury School - Ireland's first democratic school of self-directed learning You might be interested in this very short video: Peter Gray on self-directed learning Fundamentals https://youtu.be/YoE480mzrk0 | |
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