IoI Education Forum
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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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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times