All of us in education, including Chris Woodhead, would benefit from the modesty and perspicacity of Edmond Holmes, an earlier chief inspector, who said a century ago: “I recognise no final authority in pedagogy, a sphere of human labour in which the light is as darkness and we are seekers still†(“I did my best. I’m not brooding about failureâ€, 30 September).
Professor Colin Richards, Spark Bridge, Cumbria.
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