Thanks for this, it's very good. I'd never seen TD before, and from his books I imagined him to be less genial and more irascible. I remember an excellent point he made about his time as a prison doctor, along the lines of: "If a man tells me he is easily led, I ask him whether has has ever been led to an understanding of quadratic equations, or irregular French verbs."
Sam - I imagined him to be irascible too, but maybe his prison work trained him to restrict that to the written word. Yes it is a good video, particularly interesting was his observation that the police and teachers don't know what they are supposed to be doing. Maybe it's a more general public sector problem - I certainly saw it.
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Thanks for this, it's very good. I'd never seen TD before, and from his books I imagined him to be less genial and more irascible. I remember an excellent point he made about his time as a prison doctor, along the lines of: "If a man tells me he is easily led, I ask him whether has has ever been led to an understanding of quadratic equations, or irregular French verbs."
Cultural elites is one way to describe the rapacious.
Sam - I imagined him to be irascible too, but maybe his prison work trained him to restrict that to the written word. Yes it is a good video, particularly interesting was his observation that the police and teachers don't know what they are supposed to be doing. Maybe it's a more general public sector problem - I certainly saw it.
James - there are many, none of them flattering.
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