A new OECD report ranks Australia 7th in the world for academic performance of its migrant students. Children from certain migrant groups do better at school than Australian-born students, particularly those from India, China and the Philippines. They also tend to have more ambitious career aspirations and lower rates of bullying.
According to the report, “Resilience of Students with an Immigrant Background”, migrant students from England, Scotland and New Zealand were less likely to achieve even base line economic proficiency. The report examined literacy, numeracy and science performance.
Professor Ken Cruikshank, an educational lecturer at Sydney University, said people often come to Australia for their children. “I think it’s part of being a migrant that it’s the chance to succeed perhaps where the parents didn’t …. and the idea that success in life comes through education,” he said.
Confirmation came from a comment by a parent who escaped the civil war in 1970’s Lebanon. ” They’d seen the worst. And I guess when you do see the worst, you appreciate life a bit more.” She said her children all understood that education was the path to a better life. “I say, Do you want a good life? Get a good education and you must work very hard.”
As a career educator for some 30 years, I have myself noticed the difference in attitude to education between gentile children and those from ‘Israelite’ Britain and its Israelite ex-colonies. Travel in nations like Africa and visit schools and the difference in classroom atmosphere and attention is immediately apparent. The children are respectful, attentive and keen to learn. Whereas often in Western classrooms it is a battle to gain the attention of some students, who have little respect for anyone at all.
This growing general attitude is bringing about the decline in Western civilisation, an attitude of ‘We have it all. It is what we think that counts. We don’t need to be diligent and respectful of authority for we don’t even respect our parents.’
We have taught them to believe this!
We in the West have taken our many blessings for granted, for the blessings we so casually enjoy were those which were promised by God to our ancestor Abraham’s descendants. We have accepted the blessings as our right, but they are not a right as the Gentile nations well know, and our lack of respect for God and His laws – true education – is bringing about the withdrawal of those blessings, until finally they will be gone.
Malachi 1:6, “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Verse 11 – 12, ‘For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will beb great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts. But you profane it…’
And Malachi 2:1-2, ‘And now, O priests, this command is for you. If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.’
Deuteronomy 28: 43-45, ‘The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:’