"..ethically challenged and morally adrift."

Kevin Donnelly: Church vilified in classrooms
Religious wars have no place in our school education system
April 17, 2006
The Australian Multicultural Foundation recently launched a series of books for primary schools titled Harmony and Understanding.
The consequences of the long march are clear to see. Students leave school culturally illiterate, with a fragmented view of the world. Worse still, given the politics of envy and the spiritual emptiness of postmodernism, many students also leave school ethically challenged and morally adrift.

Kevin Donnelly is author of Why Our Schools are Failing (Duffy & Snellgrove, 2004). This is adapted from an address to a Quadrant dinner in Sydney last Wednesday.