Great Regulars: How did the Thatcher and Blair governments succeed

so quickly to wipe out years of such thought, theory and practice? Did my father, my mother and everyone else struggling to figure out how to give every single child the right to speak, write and read not lay out these kinds of theories clearly enough?

I am sitting on the floor of a room in the Barbican with a class of children from an inner-city school in London. They are bouncy. They don't seem to have had much experience of taking turns to talk and listen to each other. We sit in a circle.

from Michael Rosen: The Guardian: The ups and downs of a story

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