My compliments to Bill Dixon, 74, a British Legion volunteer poppy seller who has summed up in one sentence the problem wrt health and safety advice:
"This is the thing about health and safety, this government seems to think we have all been educated under the standards that you see in schools today, but some of us were actually taught common sense."
Exactly!
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Bill Dixon;
ReplyDeleteSensible words indeed.....Nanny's education system had eliminated commonsense entirely from our population, in addittion, fears over child safety or is it called, child safeguarding this week, ensures kids never have the opportunity to venture out on their own or with their peers until they are in their middle teens, this prevents kids from obtaining any level of "street wisdom" and thus, are unable to see any risk that most people of my generation could have seen by seven years of age.....Silly Nanny... More power to your elbow Bill!!
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As I set about my ageing car with angle grinder, welding torch & tinsnips, I can be thankful that I am old enough to have been allowed to chose Metalwork as a school subject. What do they get now - Media Studies?
ReplyDeleteMy youngest nephew seems keen enough, but he barely knows one end of a spanner from the other. At his age I was already stripping and rebuilding engines....
Tonk, interesting even the difference between 'child safety', which suggests that the child may have some responsibility for their own safety, and 'child safeguarding' which implies someone permanently 'guarding' the child.
ReplyDeleteLanguage has always been a tool of oppression by those who control it.
Tonk. said...
ReplyDelete" ..... ensures kids never have the opportunity to venture out on their own or with their peers until they are in their middle teens, this prevents kids from obtaining any level of "street wisdom" and thus, .........."
They learn quickly though Tonk. I assume you are talking about the 'middle class' kids here. A couple of nights in the town blagging excessive amounts of booze on someone else's ID card gets them up to speed.
Those from the more crowded estate seem, according to my observations in such vicinities when passing through, to be fully aware of all types of street activity occurring at any time in a 24 hour day by the age of 6. The slow learners take until age 8.
Of course I am not claiming that such kids are full of common sense ... or ever have been.
i yung an nuffin rong wiv mi hedukation, init?
ReplyDeletei sik wiv it.