tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post5689351666299511506..comments2024-03-28T04:50:14.406+00:00Comments on TPQ: We Must Not Introduce New Blasphemy Laws AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-79290280161543469962019-09-08T09:23:59.767+01:002019-09-08T09:23:59.767+01:00“It's pure naivety to pretend that we have eve...“<i>It's pure naivety to pretend that we have ever lived in a society characterised by free speech. If you belive that, all that reveals is that you have mainstream opinions and are too stupid to reflect on the parameters in which you are permitted to think without social or career censure.</i>”<br /><br /><br />I don't buy into all that. Some I will agree with (we don't live in a frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-74306806318326326322019-09-07T11:36:03.223+01:002019-09-07T11:36:03.223+01:00Cuts both ways though. In the draft 80s, I wrote ...Cuts both ways though. In the draft 80s, I wrote a stridently-feminist answer in my French A level (ideas were probably horsesfit, but the marker should only have been marking the language use and grammar) and had to get the marks queried. Turned out the marker, of a conservative disposition, had been incensed by my ideas and my marks suffered accordingly. In reality, there's always de ,,https://www.blogger.com/profile/11820134819776296043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-45922431444531542702019-09-06T21:41:08.501+01:002019-09-06T21:41:08.501+01:00“
Do we want students to be afraid of applying the...“<i><br />Do we want students to be afraid of applying their own critical thinking to anything and everything? Surely, in an academic context especially, religious practices and beliefs should be freely discussed? </i>”<br /><br />I have said the same thing on this blog over the past few weeks about the education system. The minute someone thinks out of the box/critically they get shouted down frankiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452424095829736700noreply@blogger.com