I don't do speculations, thanks.

You can't expect young children to understand capitalism or the Paris Accord. Lol They don't have to. They can see that fish shouldn't be swimming in the plastic-filled sea, and that's their own understanding about looking after the environment already, which I think is wonderful. Education starts at home.

Most of these things are, made in China. China, is not a patriarchal capitalist system.

@martyn500 arguably, China — although an authoritarian dictatorship — is both patriarchal and capitalist

@Naomi oh dear Naomi, how I wish you were right about kids not knowing that stuff. The education system drills anti-capitalism into their little heads from day one. I’ll agree they don't understand capitalism. Its not due to a lack of intellect, kids are extremely sharp. Its because they are drowning in progressive anti-western propaganda.

@GeeMac I'm talking about 3, 4 & 5 year olds, in the UK to be precise...
"The education system drills anti-capitalism into their little heads from day one." Which education system do you mean is "the education system"? Are you talking about the Canadian education system? Otherwise, it is a strange generalisation...

@Naomi It’s not a generalization at all. By “education system” — of course I mean schools children are required to attend in most countries from the ages of 5 to about 18, followed by a post-secondary or university system.

Most teachers and educational materials — by that I mean text books, audio visuals, and teaching aids — are biased toward the left, and against western tradition.

One of the best examples is the revised western history narrative spearheaded by Howard Zinn, the man who singlehandedly reimagined Christopher Columbus as a patriarchal, genocidal rapist. Zinn’s followers and teachings are embedded in the curriculum all over the western world and children are being taught to be ashamed of their own history and their culture.

Have you not heard of the campaign to dethrone Cecil Rhodes at Oxford? All part of what’s being drilled into children’s heads.

@GeeMac Again, you're talking in general terms. You're talking as if you know exactly what is going on in the education/academic world on a global scale; you're talking as if you know exactly what is going on in every single school and college in every single town and city in every single region and country in the world.
"Most teachers and educational materials — by that I mean text books, audio visuals, and teaching aids — are biased toward the left, and against western tradition." That's rhetoric. You sound like a propaganda machine! You don't sound like you have ever been actually involved in education as a professional like a headmaster, a teacher, a classroom assistant, education advisor, etc. You initially said "The education system drills anti-capitalism into their little heads from day one." Well, I can tell you specifically that in my school, there is no such thing as an anti-capitalism program incorporated in the school curriculum which corresponds to the national curriculum. And there are many in the educational field who are right against the view you presented in your comment. Katharine Birbalsingh is one of them. I rest my case.

@Naomi I’m a great admirer of Birbalsingh and many others like Theodore Daylrimple who have long warned — call it propaganda if you wish — that there is a decided progressive bias and anti-western attitude throughout the education system.

Dalrymple, writing on the UK system in Spoilt Rotten sums up:

The attempt to fill minds otherwise innocent of information has resulted in indoctrination with sentimentalism. The only chemical of which children have heard is carbon dioxide because it is a greenhouse gas; they want to save the planet though they can’t find China on a map or define a contour. They know that history has been a struggle between oppressor and oppressed because the historical episodes of which they are aware are the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust (not necessarily in that order).
The triumph of the romantic view of education was... disastrous.

It’s silly to suggest any criticism is absolute, applying to every person and every instance in every school. I’m thinking that comment was more playful than serious? I’m even more sure you don’t believe that one has to be an “education professional” before being permitted to criticize a system to which we turn over the impressionable minds of children for a dozen years or more.

Hello there. I hear you, but I would like to think that the majority are still decent people. We all have this bad habit of talking of a minority of people, in this case those who lack common sense and manners, as if they represent the majority/the entire society, I think.

Back in the ‘60’s & ‘70’s in NYC, we had garbage pickup EVERY day Mon-Saturday...alternate side of the street parking EVERY day for the street cleaners...(except holidays) who came by...every other day washing down the streets & gutters...up until the unions got too greedy & demanded too much $$$.