Talk:School of Economic Science
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The School of Economic Science runs a secondary school and primary schools in London, that were subject to inquiries concerning violence against children.
Channel 4 News in the UK did a recent report on it that can be viewed here:
http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1946
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The Past
I read the "Secret Cult" book which attacks the School many years ago. The authors were professional journalists working, if I recall, for one of the main London evening newspapers. I don't know if all their allegations were accurate or not, but this section - especially the second paragraph - includes an unsourced defense against some of the allegations. One has to assume it is written by someone affiliated with or sympathetic to the School. "Nowadays the School is very open about what it teaches." Not in its advertising it isn't - to this day, the posters on the subway and magazine ads do not explain that the School teaches "a particular philosophy". Nor do they mention that "the student will be invited to a meditation initiation ceremony which is of vedantic inspiration". Maybe there's nothing wrong with any of that, but to make these points in a Wikipedia article is to advance an unsupported POV. Simply heading the section "The Past" is an implicit claim that "The Present" is different - maybe it is, but no evidence is cited. KD
I disagree. If you refer to the School's website, there is a great deal of information about the philosophy, its origins, meditation etc.There are number of people hostile to the school and who criticise it. They are free to do so, but should not use Wikipedia as a tool to pursue their "campaign". In the interests of openess and factual accuracy visit the website.In the past the school was criticised for a lack of openess, and has done all it can to remedy that. One of the principles in the school is tolerance and another is that nothing taught should be accepted or rejected unless the student verifies it for themselves. The book refered to was written over twenty years ago, and in my view does not reflect accurately the present. The website is http://www.schooleconomicscience.org/84.69.132.114 15:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
If we want to talk about unsupported POV, I object to the misleading statement: "Apparently while the under cover journalists were on their 'stake outs' they were offered cups of tea by members of the school." The only purpose for this sentence that I can deduce is to imply that the "tea" was laced with something. That paragraph continues: "The book was taglined as a A full expose of a strange and destructive organization that is penetrating the corridors of power. There were apparently links with key members of the Liberal party in Britain." Again, these are clearly intended to IMPLY something, without any attempt at verification.
Is this a "storm in a tea cup"? Wikipedia should not be used by those seeking only to criticise.The information about the school is freely available on the website - link above.
