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Thread #167215   Message #4030252
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Jan-20 - 07:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: conversation with bertrand russell
Subject: RE: BS: conversqtion with bertrand rusell
Plenty of prescience. I find it interesting to contemplate which of his predictions came true, or are coming true, and to what extent. He was understandably off-beam in his prediction about food supply and the way he expressed certain things was, shall we say, of its time (lumping "Asia" into one, and talking about "the white man" for example), but overall he had a message of hope for humanity and he is impossible to pigeon-hole. His views on education were thoughtful if somewhat conservative. One view that I know he held but which didn't surface in the interview was that only the best people should become teachers, and that as such they should be severely left alone to decide how to do their jobs. He would be appalled at the way that education has become such a political football and I think he would be a vehement opponent of Ofsted. I like him.