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	<title>Comments on: Dear Mr Ed Balls and the DCSF- No thankyou</title>
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		<title>By: guenstig kredit online kredit rechner</title>
		<link>http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/10/11/dear-mr-ed-balls-and-the-dcsf-no-thankyou/#comment-440616</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[guenstig kredit online kredit rechner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adopting study technology, it has PDA functions aside by means of brochures make an effort code, chart flow moreover actuation test, sensor waveform furthermore devoted security control.     LR&lt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adopting study technology, it has PDA functions aside by means of brochures make an effort code, chart flow moreover actuation test, sensor waveform furthermore devoted security control.     LR&lt;</p>
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		<title>By: Arnie</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s a genuinely imspesrive answer.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s a genuinely imspesrive answer.</p>
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		<title>By: Dear Ed Balls &#38; the DCSF &#8211; no thank you. &#124; Home Educating the Puddle Chicks.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dear Ed Balls &#38; the DCSF &#8211; no thank you. &#124; Home Educating the Puddle Chicks.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 14:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Caroline</title>
		<link>http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/10/11/dear-mr-ed-balls-and-the-dcsf-no-thankyou/#comment-7284</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[blogged my &#039;Dear Ed&#039; - not so wonderfully as you , but take a read!! :D]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>blogged my &#8216;Dear Ed&#8217; &#8211; not so wonderfully as you , but take a read!! <img src="http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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		<title>By: Father Ignatius Brown</title>
		<link>http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/10/11/dear-mr-ed-balls-and-the-dcsf-no-thankyou/#comment-7283</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Father Ignatius Brown]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wonderful article - and with passion and focus like that you are most certainly swaying hearts and minds...

...but as I have said elsewhere and will keep saying...
Be warned Home Educators - you are up against the centralising instincts of the socialists - socialists have a complete disregard for liberty and individual freedom because it threatens the organs of state including state organised education (through which they can pump their socialist propaganda).

Education otherwise is the only form of education that recognises the value of the individual over the group. It recognises that society is not the same as THE STATE and it recognises that society is a product of individual free choice not a separate imposed order.

That, sadly for home educators, is completely at odds with the aims and ambitions of socialists in general and this Labour government in particular, which thinks it has a god-given right to meddle in every aspect of our personal life for the sake of &quot;the greater good&quot; and &quot;social order&quot;.

Sadly for this country, socialism is the fastest route to the totalitarianism of national-socialism yet invented (with half our productive economic capacity nationalised in all but name we are half way there already).

Blessings for freedom and education otherwise,

Father Ignatius Brown]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonderful article &#8211; and with passion and focus like that you are most certainly swaying hearts and minds&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;but as I have said elsewhere and will keep saying&#8230;<br />
Be warned Home Educators &#8211; you are up against the centralising instincts of the socialists &#8211; socialists have a complete disregard for liberty and individual freedom because it threatens the organs of state including state organised education (through which they can pump their socialist propaganda).</p>
<p>Education otherwise is the only form of education that recognises the value of the individual over the group. It recognises that society is not the same as THE STATE and it recognises that society is a product of individual free choice not a separate imposed order.</p>
<p>That, sadly for home educators, is completely at odds with the aims and ambitions of socialists in general and this Labour government in particular, which thinks it has a god-given right to meddle in every aspect of our personal life for the sake of &#8220;the greater good&#8221; and &#8220;social order&#8221;.</p>
<p>Sadly for this country, socialism is the fastest route to the totalitarianism of national-socialism yet invented (with half our productive economic capacity nationalised in all but name we are half way there already).</p>
<p>Blessings for freedom and education otherwise,</p>
<p>Father Ignatius Brown</p>
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		<title>By: kellyi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[kellyi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously said, inspiring - you&#039;re a better wordsmith than you know!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As previously said, inspiring &#8211; you&#8217;re a better wordsmith than you know!</p>
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		<title>By: HHaricot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HHaricot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t imagine so...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t imagine so&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very inspiring.  I hope they are listening.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very inspiring.  I hope they are listening.</p>
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		<title>By: Merry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Merry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hear hear.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hear hear.</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth@Frabjous Days</title>
		<link>http://petitsharicots.org.uk/weblog/2009/10/11/dear-mr-ed-balls-and-the-dcsf-no-thankyou/#comment-7278</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth@Frabjous Days]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hear hear.

Very well said.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hear hear.</p>
<p>Very well said.</p>
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