Finally, education, as its name implies, is about leadership, indeed it is the argument of this magazine that discipline is impossible without authentic leadership. And it is leadership which is lacking in the modern school. That role is now in the hands of the media, especially the advertising media. A new education must regard the advertising industry as broadly speaking its enemy, with an agenda ultimately political, to break down human identities, thereby, as Alain de Benoist justly observed, depoliticising the individual. Modern education, which preaches liberty, prepares its pupils for a life in which the they are politically emasculated.
Education is about the state, it is about how society is organised, it is political first and last.
And no educationalist is more political than the one who claims to be non-political. The answer is that it has gone into cold storage until such time as enough persons show an interest in its survival. In the meantime this magazine will continue to do the best it can in helping to discredit and eventually destroy an educational environment whose only understanding of value is contained in the word price. For more from The Scorpion , see the main page .