Many schoolchildren today are routinely taught that, ultimately, there is no such thing as objective knowledge or meaning. This educational fad is called “Critical Literacy” or “Deconstruction”.John Kelly, a secondary-school teacher in South Australia, argues that the New Left is deliberately using its educational monopoly to enforce “Critical Literacy” on today’s generation of culturally disinherited schoolchildren and undergraduates.That something is seriously amiss in the teaching of English …
