Posts by Paul Litterick
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Ian Mackay, of course you are entitled to disagree with me, but be assured, I do *not* have an audience/reader in mind when I write.
Did nobody tell you about the Death of the Author? Get with the programme: Critics know best.
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The BBC World Service emailed me in the wee small hours, with an offer I would not have refused, had I been awake.
I thought they, of all people, would know better.
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And how would this anarchist state (if that is not an oxymoron) get started? What would induce people to decide they no longer want a government, and for the existing government to abdicate all its authority and responsibility? No, don't tell me - it will all happen after nuclear holocaust
Cooperative ventures like Leoncavallo are rad, but they exist within liberal democracies. They don't replace them.
Besides, there is too much real stuff happening, most of it unpleasant, to worry about imaginary states.
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And we will all live in villages, where all decisions are made collectively. It will be a post-industrial paradise. But we will still have Internet, and dentistry.
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Didn't National just pass a law so that they could set standards and force schools to provide quality feedback on individual performance?'.
I note the Smiley, so don't accuse me of Irony Deficiency, but Hattie was talking about a different kind of feedback, the kind where teachers talk to students. The feedback which National is implementing is about League Tables and the Three Arse. This sort of feedback just gets in the way of Education.
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So let's get this right: Anne Tolley rushed through her education 'reforms' under Urgency, when there was a great big research study about to be published which contradicted the claims of the measures she introduced.
This says a lot for the Select Committee system.
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Thank you for the link. My incessant blogging might have a causal link with my quitting the smokes and the drinks.
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Comments now available in Stereo.
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And the children loved the story that Uncle David wrote for them. But then, somebody pressed the Discuss button...
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And the children loved the story that Uncle David wrote for them. But then, somebody pressed the Discuss button...