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5. Educational managers and policy makers

6. Trainee Teachers

10. This tends to reduce the inherent reward of learning and thereby diminish motivation.

11. Quantified targets tend to limit achievement.

13. Micro-planning of lessons diminishes the scope for spontaneity and reflection.

14. The emphasis on speed increases stress, thereby reducing effectiveness.

16. Technical excellence is necessary but not sufficient for success.

17. Standardised teaching technique has diminished the role of the teacher as an individual person.

19. Professionals can be trusted to develop their own solutions.

20. Professionals have a reasonable right to expect quality in their own lives. This enhances what they offer their pupils.

22. We often under-estimate our pupils’ taste and potential for Knowledge.

23. A knowledge base is at least as important as personal or workplace skills in giving meaning to individual lives.

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