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Bellgrove wakened with a jerk, gathered his gown about him like God gathering a whirlwind and brought his hand down with a dull impotent thud on the lid of his desk. His absurdly noble head raised itself. His proud and vacant gaze settled at last on young Dogseye.
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Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1969), pp. 86–7.
Professor Peters’ attempt to provide such an account, in R. S. Peters, Ethics and Education (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1966), Ch. 5, has attracted much criticism, including Glenn Langford ‘Values in Education’, in Glenn Langford and D. J. O’Connor (eds), New Essays in the Philosophy of Education (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1973).
Paul H. Hirst, ‘What is teaching?’, in Knowledge and the Curriculum (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974), p. 102.
Antony Flew, ‘Teaching and Testing’, in Sociology, Equality and Education (Macmillan, London, 1976), p. 79.
Glenn Langford, ‘The Concept of Education’, in Glenn Langford and D. J. O’Connor (eds), New Essays in the Philosophy of Education (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1973), section 4.
Communication is discussed more fully in Chapter 7, section II, 4.
R. Descartes, Discourse on Method (J. M. Dent, London, 1912), pp. 5, 5 and 8 respectively.
Ibid., pp. 10 and 11 respectively.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, in Peter Fairclouth (ed.), Three Gothic Novels (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1968).
Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Hutchinson, London, 1959), Preface to the First Edition, 1934, p. 13.
Cf. Chapter 2, section I.
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Langford, G. (1985). Teaching, Learning and the Social Basis of Knowledge. In: Education, Persons and Society. Modern Introductions to Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17860-5_6
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