“ we should teach children how to think; not what to think” That right there is the crux of the issue.

@gunsharck

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!

@user-rh7gu2sn9p

3 ай бұрын

Correct. I have always said this. After all, common sense has gradually been in decline for decades. Thus, common sense is now not so common in our societies any more.

@xEvilRaptorx

3 ай бұрын

​@@user-rh7gu2sn9pcommon sense has been replaced with ego and misplaced pride

@ellie698

26 күн бұрын

But the folk in charge can't have people thinking for themselves!

@user-rh7gu2sn9p

25 күн бұрын

Correct. Boys education has gradually been destroyed by the feminist madness environment created by LGBTQ. Then, when challenged about this abomination of desolation, they shout homophobia. Pure evil.

I would happily have Rafe high up in our Gov. This man knows what he's talking about! Keep up the great work 🙏🏻

@user-hw3zb4sc8q

Ай бұрын

We need more of him in goverment, a whole lot more

'If their hair is blue, there's nothing you can do.' Thank you rafe, I'm going to use that, it's brilliant and sadly true!

@StillAliveAndKicking_

4 ай бұрын

I associate blue hair with elderly conservative women i.e the blue rinse brigade. Odd.

@matthewwaddington2777

4 ай бұрын

That's what comes later...When the self-loathing, the loathing of others, and the negative outlook have become a way of life.@@StillAliveAndKicking_

@StillAliveAndKicking_

4 ай бұрын

@@matthewwaddington2777 I always assumed the Tory blue rinse brigade were relatively harmless reactionaries. Topling statues and shouting anti-semitic slogans isn’t really their forte, they’re more into a nice cuppa and a moan about declining standards of English.

@mavisemberson8737

3 ай бұрын

Outof date, I'm afraid. They have very long hair grey or white and it is most unbecoming :0@@StillAliveAndKicking_

@Schwabian

3 ай бұрын

We gave a new director with pink hair - around 45yo female- and my motto is - if the hair is pink the organisation will sink- so unprofessional and no mentor- not much to choose from days re management - they hire anyone it seems- 😮😮

Eloquent, intelligent and articulate. Always a pleasure to listen to this man speak.

Rafe is a ship of reason on a sea of bullshit. Nailed it as always.

This man needs a huge international platform, everyone needs to hear this kind of thing. Especially now.

Love sir Rafi, he says what all normal Brits feel. We have to push back against the islamafaction of the UK.

@joelaw5207

4 ай бұрын

yes totally agree, Rafe is a man that should be at the very helm of our country instead of buffoons like boris & sunak

@fredwigley8786

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant Man in fact Exceptional. Should by PM . Night or would get this Country sorted Out . 🙏

@tenniskinsella7768

4 ай бұрын

So why vote labour next election be worse

@MrDenzal27

4 ай бұрын

@@tenniskinsella7768 cus its the only way to get Reform in next election.

@Poonslaya

19 күн бұрын

I would vote for Rafe

Rafe always talking sense.

Seeing a lot more of this guy and what a breath of fresh air he is, putting it to the woke mob with nothing but facts and context from history. Well played Rafe!

Greatest takeaway is : children should be taught how to think not what to think! Brilliant

I would love rafe as a teacher in a history lesson, it certainly wouldn't be boring.

My late father was a teacher and headmaster for many years. At one stage of his career he was head of dept. at Kagumo teacher training college nr Nyeri in Kenya and Chair for Kenya Institute of Education at Nairobi university. On return to the UK he was a national assessor for trainee teachers on final T.P.'s and was dismayed to find an excessive number of students who were aiming at Primary education were devoid of any understanding of pre-reading techniques. How could anyone go into a primary and teach a child to read whilst devoid of that essential skill. Dad believed that changing teacher traing colleges into colleges of further education was the worst thing to hit education. You don't need a degree to teach,but you do need to know HOW to teach!

A brilliant man , a brilliant speaker 👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

A shout out from across the pond. Rafe is a breath of fresh air. He has more class and more intelligence than at least half of Congress…. Too bad for us that he’s British. We could use a man like him here in the States

Absolutely brilliant speech

He needs to run for PM so we can vote him! Thank God for men like him nowadays, fighting for OUR, of us all, rights.

This guy is spot-on with this analysis. I remember back to my late teens and twenties through the 90's, casually observing the young kids of the time and how sheltered, over-supervised, and under-exposed to people, media, and, well...life they were compared to how my own peers and I had been only a few years earlier. Although I couldn't have fully anticipated it at the time I remember thinking "we're going to have some real problems with these kids one day." Little did I know how disturbingly accurate that premonition would prove to be. As this group became teens and young adults it became even more striking how profoundly uneducated, inexperienced, inarticulate, culturally illiterate, and hive-minded they had indeed become. And oh what consequences we are now reaping.Which now brings us to the present. How to combat this? Turn back the clock. Encourage a return to an older lifestyle as per the 70's-90's. Bring back unsupervised play. Expose children to older books, films, and music. Let them learn from black eyes, cuts, and bruises. Bring back an appreciation for healthy irreverence, humour, and passionate debate. Don't rely on or trust schools to do everything - educate at home as well. Bring back context, nuance, and common sense. Put down the goddamned phones for five minutes a day. Let's learn to be real human beings again.

I love this man. Intellectually attractive with those bow ties.

This needs to be said and promulgated. I totally support the reading of Solzhenitsyn for sixth formers. Keep at it Rafe.

Intelligent and wise man saying intelligent and wise things. A pity there are only a few parents, teachers, college and university lecturers left that are intelligent and wise. The current batch are so stupid they cannot see the way this once great country is heading. Most will not like this country when we get there. Glad I am over 60 and I fear for our youth.

@user-rh7gu2sn9p

3 ай бұрын

Common sense is not so common anymore.

‘I say,bring it on’ - love it !

Rafe! you are a voice of reason and truth. Thank you sir, from the Great South Land 🇦🇺 and a new subscriber.

Erudite as ever Rafe, been advocating this since the woke mind virus struck!

How to think, not what to think - perfect explanation

Great speech Rafe!

We're living in a time of co-operation gone mad. To quote Dee Hock. "Co-operation gone mad results in the mindless pursuit of equality, centralized force to achieve uniformity, an ever increasing coercion to sustain it and eventual slavery".

Excellent !!

The total genius that is Raif Mankoo. A true humanist and patriot.👏👏👏👏👏

More people need to listen to Rafe 🙏🙏🙏🙏😍

Shame we can't vote for him to be PM.

Excellent talk, thank you.

So glad I was a teenager in the 1970's and in my 20's all through the wonderful 1980's. I had a fantastic youth full of freedom and normality. I wouldn't want to swap that to be young now 😫 I pity them

We need more great minds like yours Rafe!

Rafe for prime minister!

More people need to see this. That's why I'm leaving this comment.

Protect this man! We need him for a long time to come.

Brilliant.

The best thing I’ve listened to in a long time.

Great work Rafe

A wonderful wish list from Mr H-M, as one might expect. But I fear that currently there are no politicians with the courage and the will to implement even one of his excellent suggestions.

I had a great aunt who started her career sitting in a class taken by an experienced teacher for a term.Then with another teacher for the next term.Each time eventually taking several class subjects herself.This took several years before becoming a teacher herself. No going to university or college. Teacher Training Colleges rarely taught students to teach, just act as a second class universities.

Just make things simple and put this man in charge, of EVERYTHING, please.

What an excellent speech. Thank you so much, Rafe!

A brilliant rendition presented most eloquently... We need to pay attention to this gentleman to have a future generation that is responsible and critical in their thinking. Thank you, Sir.

Why isn't this man in Parliament?

@greatscott369

Ай бұрын

That's a good question, why are we selecting the least capable?

My history teacher Mr James at henry thornton london must've been exceptional. He made me sit on the royalist side of a mock trail of charles 1 The upshot of all this was myself and colleagues managed to convince the teacher to prevent charles from losing his head.😂

Spoken eloquently !!! Thx.

*_WHY has my perfectly inoffensive comment been hidden in the 'Sort by, newest first' function here, effectively and as good as censoring._* *_Could it be some kind of sly "Cancelling" I wonder ? (Sarc) ..._*

@saltburner2

4 ай бұрын

I am also shadow-banned because I am anti-woke

@noelogara1

4 ай бұрын

Ones first thought is to blame fb, but I've found it's mostly the page mods. However if you try all the options you generally will find it. Try that. It's there.

@rafalhm

4 ай бұрын

@@noelogara1 This is entirely due to KZread's automatic filtering. Page moderation has no control over whether comments appear in "Top Comments."

@MrDenzal27

4 ай бұрын

Its while the bot scans for naughty words. They come back if allowed.

@noelogara1

4 ай бұрын

@@rafalhm I think all censorship is more of the Woke mollycoddling. We have to learn to live online with the deviant and horrible people and overcome them. You have developed a thick skin by taking on the liars and haters and that's what makes a man of you. Great speech.

Every word ..... *FACT*

I would love to have Rafe deliver that speech to my children's PTA - they are so woke it's like a Disneyfied satire of reality.

When I was a kid, you learned that if you stepped out of line it would either be humiliating or painful, nowt wrong with that.

It’s not just teachers it is the legal and medical systems employed by society or families that forces or threatens schools if children get hurt.

In my country (and many others), it is quite common to throw a birthday party for small children and their class mates (much to the dismay of anyone who knows how 10-20 screaming kids hopped up on sugar can be). This was the same for me, when I was a child, for the first few years in kindergarten, my class had many birthday parties. At some point a classmate's parents, they were jehova's witnesses, had presumably been critiqued by higher up's in their religion and thus their child could no longer participate in birthday parties. However, the class teacher had an idea. We could rename the "birthday parties" to "class parties" and then the kid could participate again. I have a very distinct memory of my mother, becoming rather infuriated about the idea of having to "lie" for religious sensibilities and the hypocrisy of it all, after all, we would all know that the party was, in fact, a birth day party. My mother is the kind of person, that when she went to vote the first time, in the small town very right wing / conservative leaning community, she loudly yelled over the voting hall "what the hell? There's no communists to vote on out here?". She's not actually a communist, nor right wing. Maybe, at most, a somewhat left leaning, centrist. But her ability to be somewhat contrarian, questioning things and speaking truth to power, is something I've always admired. And not least, my parents and their families, had always been discussing things like politics and news, loudly and usually with quite a bit of alcohol around (at parties, not regular workdays). Us kids were encouraged to argue with, it was ok to think something else, as long as you could argue for it. I'm very glad, I got that gift from my parents.

@rustshoo5068

4 ай бұрын

Well, good for you! Be not a shrinking violet.

Such a proposal has already been made after WWII to teach kids how to recognize propaganda. The proposal was criticized by the military, politicians and members of the church. It is discussed in Huxley’s book Brave New World Revisited. The present we live in is exactly what the people in power want it to be, I don’t see it changing.

This man is a treasure for sure! ❤❤❤

The indisputable basics may be useful to start with.. the foundational building blocks that no-one can argue against that will combine to allow for more complex knowledge and understanding the intellectual equivalent of "back to basics"

On the show “Red Ice” they were saying ideally parents need to raise “John Conners” (the future hero in the Terminator movies). Someone who is familiar with the modern weaponized technology and propaganda but has the desire to defeat it.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Blue -haired banchees! lol love it!

Well said Rafe, very good points overall. Personally I maybe a little softer on the “school of hard knocks”, which maybe from experience with the SEND cohort. While I understand the sentiment about CRT, should it be outright banned or used as a learning opportunity for some theories to be wary of? Should we, in pursuit of diversity of thought, regrettably have to permit CRT provided it is alongside an argument against it?

"Kidults" created in the "Infantile Generation" in the Age of Idiocy.

Nah. It'll never happen. Makes too much sense.

I agree with his general outlook, but the proposal that young kids should beat bullies by having a tougher skin is ridiculous. We MUST legislate against bullying in schools, it can destroy lives.

Agree

Yes- the education system has failed them including let’s be friends parenting, gaming, and no job and brain washed- it’s happening in Australia too

“Blue haired banshees” 😂😂😂

facing a dystopian future, no we are a«in a dystopian orwelian time.

Real life doesn't care about "fragility". The "reproofs of life" will make or break the up coming snowflakes and hot house plants. Avoiding them leaves them to their own consequences. I refuse any accountability for the disaster of contemporary sheltering. The school of hard knocks, the reproofs of life will have their way. Sink or swim Scooter.

Its important to remember that for young people their future careers depend on the person marking their papers believing that they are true believers of left-wing faith.

George Orwell hated colonialism, he saw its results first hand. However, it was always battling against the inherent qualities that existed before its arrival and as such colonialism never truly managed to overcome its most ardent opponents.

Ummm…I don’t know about letting children do what they want in the playground! Think again Rafe! It’s a good job they have ambulances on hand in NZ.

@rafalhm

4 ай бұрын

Don't worry. I wasn't suggesting we implement something so radical. I was merely pointing out the New Zealand case as an (extreme) example of the general principle of unsupervised play working successfully elsewhere.

What are you selling if you have to lie, intimidate or punish others into buying it? Who benefits? If the buyer benefited, you wouldn’t need to force them.

Is it because so many have much smaller families than in the past that parents coddle and protect their children so strenuously? The cost of living being what it is in so many countries it is hard to cloth and feed a large family let alone being able to afford to have them in sports, the arts, etc...

I’ve said for sometime, that the further we go down the woke route, the more drastic the measures will need to be to correct it. To the extent, that it may need something like Chinese communism to correct it. I say Chinese communism and not Russian communism, because at least Chinese communism is technology driven where as the Russians are still back in dark ages.

F safe spaces

This isn’t a game of intelligence, it’s a game of imagination 😎

Very close Rafe but its a spiritual issue .Everyone longs for the father .Anger comes through the women until every human being gos and forgives there mother for putting anger into them and forgiving there father for not protecting them then nothing will turn there nature from evil to good

The ludicrous, unintelligent, and angry run the world today.

What makes the world go around? MONEY of course. Cut off their benefits, force them back to work. Soon they will face reality and stop this nonsense.

Speech is not free in a civilised society. For example you are forbidden to lie.

Liberalism is the problem. Liberalism led to this sorry state in the first place, because it can be used to rationalise anything.

@nulix8237

4 ай бұрын

No that's not what he's saying.

Blue and pink hair should be banned

@gunsharck

4 ай бұрын

Wee bit ironic considering who you chose to name yersel after

@mrblobby809

4 ай бұрын

@@gunsharck blobby didn't have hair, and I hate to break it to ya, blobby isn't real

@charliekane135

2 ай бұрын

Blobby had purple hair as a youngster, sadly he succumbed to premature baldness.

I feel Rafe's argument may here be weakened by two biases: firstly survivor bias in that he survived the intellectual and literal "pathogens" he happened to come in contact with in his childhood ; and moreover that his surely wealthy upbringing, among a relatively gilded generation, would have tended to make these pathogens milder and more survivable. For many children, born into less fortunate homes and in more recent times, the danger isn't allergies but aspergillosis ; not faintheartedness but falling victim to predators. For them, failing to develop resilience to and tolerance of conflicting viewpoints may be a lesser danger than that a classmate might assault them with a knife. It's appallingly naive to hold that changing how children are taught and how teachers are trained might return the dial to a more natural resting-place: first the monsters among us must be slain, and they may now constitute a quarter of us. We should remember the example of ancient Athens sentencing Socrates to death for corrupting the young: although they got the wrong guy the punishment fit the crime.

@ihavenot

4 ай бұрын

What a load of trite bollocks! There's nothing gilded in Rafe's childhood or anyone else's that 'survived' from his generation. Whatever 'class' one came from or had the fortune to be educated at, a knife is a knife, a bully is a bully, violence is violence, and torment of the weak is the same. The only naive one is you if you think that the risk of being threatened by a knife today for a child is any less terrifying than being hung upside down out of a window 60ft above concrete by your ankles!

Interesting topic however some viewpoints are missing. I believe Cancel Culture has it’s place and can be utilized with great effect in government, certainly I’m not advocating the use with private civilians or corporate use of it on the workforce. This is a complicated issue. I’m a live and let live person myself. Do what you want, be who you want, marry who you want , peacefully, lovingly however fascism / hate should have no quarter and should not ever be normalized. I’m all for free speech but where do we begin to censor; comment below was interesting; "Speech is not free in a civilized society. For example you are forbidden to lie:. Here in the United States waiting until you have Trumpism taking root is not the answer. The line needs to be drawn so this cancer does not continue. Nor do I believer this type of hate speech should not be given a platform. The media needs to do better, show viewpoints of both sides for what it is. If we don’t listen to each other how can we change. I agree, most importantly, we need to teach critical thinking. Our education system needs more funds and dependable allies in government. Education needs to be fostered and strengthened not weakening as is the trend here in the US. I'm all ears.

these boomers grabbed our housing, and are now reaping the whirlwind 😂

@gunsharck

4 ай бұрын

💩

@charliekane135

2 ай бұрын

*your* housing 😆 Hate to burst your bubble but you have to earn money to 'own things'. That means working for decades ...... a scary prospect for the entitled I know

@buy.to.let.britain

2 ай бұрын

thats correct. you have to EARN the money. so when a bunch of criminals at the bank of england begin creating it from nothing to buy homes to become your fake forever 'landlords', society collapses. @@charliekane135

@davecarson3D

Ай бұрын

Yes agreed with previous post. Your housing? How so? Gotta get a job and earn some money first. Not cry cos you have to get up for work

@buy.to.let.britain

Ай бұрын

@@davecarson3D yes. the bank of england created billion that did not exost, to fund a boomers buy to let frenzy. thats good im sure, but its come at the cost of your pensions. ive never seen such idiocy and greed in all my life.

Yeah let's hate everyone who cares about other people. Everyone gotta think and be exactly like me or I can't handle it! Pathetic.