For a recent discussion of the educational function and correctness of poetry and the knowledge of the poets, see Hatzistavrou (2011).
As chief inspector of schools, he enraged the educational establishment by attacking political correctness, trendy teaching, bureaucracy and waste.
Gove – who incurred teachers' wrath at the Tory conference when he accused the educational establishment of defeatism, political correctness and a culture of "dumbing down" – vowed to provide children with smaller schools where teachers know their names.
Today, we see Trump fanning similar disgust about campus politics: young people questioning the gender binary, demands for 'trigger warnings' and 'safe spaces' and the climate of political correctness that has moved out of educational contexts to the broader culture".
In her book "Telling the Truth" (Simon & Schuster, 1995), she laments that political correctness and relativism have corrupted the nation's culture and educational institutions.
In the educational field, for example, the 0, 1, and 2 points might indicate different degrees of correctness of an answer: 0-incorrect; 1-partial credit; 2-full credit.
He wrote: "In 22 remarkable minutes, 'Whacking Day' skewers the quality of America's educational system, self-aggrandizing politicians, greed, the mob mentality, sexuality in the age of political correctness and the whole notion of political correctness, and makes a hero of Barry White".
With the phrase "we will tackle head-on the defeatism, the political correctness and the entrenched culture of dumbing down that is at the heart of our educational establishment", Gove lost the support of many headteachers, who are working tirelessly, often in the most challenging circumstances, for the young people of this country.
Political correctness, while it may be thought of as a controversial topic for many, is actually an incredibly enlightening and educational idea that sheds light on the truly marginalized populations living on the fringe of society - and not by choice.
