Ozwitness

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 be^b 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:’

You may have noticed the grip of much colder winter weather over the Northern hemisphere, spreading even into Africa, the current expansion of the Eastern Antarctic ice sheet and recent claims  (later retracted ) that January set a heat record for Sydney, but the amazing thing is, apparently according to the global warming cohort, these events are linked.   “” Climate disruption, whether fire or ice, we’re to blame. No ifs, no buts.””

I have pointed out  that there is ample evidence of global warming having taken place many times in the past, and global cooling, resulting in warmer periods than today, as well as the ice age, long before man began producing Co2 by burning fossil fuels in industry. I have pointed out that these fuels were produced naturally out of our atmosphere by plants and trees, and that burning them only returns to the atmosphere what was at one time part of it, but these ‘scientists’ ignore such points, reject such debate and their academies starve non conforming researchers of both information (which they prefer to keep hidden) and funds.

However, satellite information now confirms that global air temperatures are back to the same level they were before the 2014-16 super El Nino event and this decline is accelerating. Satellites have also detected a fall in sea surface temperatures since 2015.

One solar expert is predicting another minor ice age based upon the declining sun spot activity which is predicted to reach a minimum between 2019 and 2020, but the Green-left global warming movement is determined that their dubious scientific data is cause enough for the West to pay $128 billion annually to counteract unspecified environmental damage to the third world.

Significantly, their socialist allies Russia and China fail to donate, despite their significant Co2 emissions . Meanwhile, places like South Australia have been duped  into dumping its abundant base load energy from coal by their left wing government so that blackouts have been their reward along with declining industry and their youth departing to find work elsewhere, while foreign governments eagerly buy their rejected coal, showing the futility of their costly policies.

Meantime, recent research correlates a close connection between solar activity and the earth’s climate, backing the Bible’s insistence that the earth’s climate is under God’s control and will remain stable during the coming millennium of 1000 years, after the Great Tribulation, Isaiah 30:23-25, ‘And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.’