Ian Burns
religious studies and ethics teacher

Ian Burns is a politically homeless, RS and ethics classroom teach of 15 years’ experience working in rural and urban schools. He holds an MA in Western esoteric studies.
Ian says we must able to think both inside and outside of any box, or order to understand what the box is. His main passion in education is teaching power knowledge-based learning, thereby leading to the development of intellectual and emotion understanding, the inherent of the value of viewpoint diversity within and across the diverse cultural malaise of our pluralistic society. He says that teachers should be apolitical to their student, particularly in their formative years. He argues that activist disciplines should be monitored and censored where they cross the line of political neutrality, and that indoctrination should be viewed by all as an abomination.
Ian says that tolerance is hard work, yet the demand that we ‘celebrate’ can amount diversity to tyranny. He argues that, most importantly, we must value freedom of speech and freedom of conscience, understood from a from a liberal humanist perspective, which means however uncomfortably we may feel, even Katy Hopkins and Tommy Robinson get to speak. Ian argues that all CRT and anti-racist derivative peddler’s and their ideologues should be heard, debated, where they have something of value to say listen too, where not – promptly ignored.

RELATED SESSIONS

Monday 27 September, 19:00 ACCENT Study Centre, 12 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA
Should the classroom be politically neutral?

Sunday 10 October, 10:30 Robert Runcie Room, Church House
Is it time to scrap exams?