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“Are you a teacher who is suffering from professional dehydration? If so, you might find the Battle of Ideas to be just the tonic. If won’t provide you with any evidence of ‘best practice’, or even the slightest notion of ‘what works’. It will, however, drench you in controversy and steep you in new ideas. And this may again whet your appetite for teaching.” |
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"To contribute to Battle of Ideas is to add a few words to a giant, communal speech-bubble out of the gap-toothed mouth of British opinion. It is a strong reminder that the joys of free, uncalculated speech and the right to attack orthodoxies can in no way be assumed in 2012 – that we use them or lose them."
Piers Hellawell, composer; professor of composition, Queen’s University Belfast
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