Shirley Lawes

[Shirley Lawes @malgremoi]

Agree with Claire Fox. Also, fear made people ultra compliant often against their better judgement.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Don't want Cummings hounded out. But think this point is key re why people mad. Guidance always did allow for discretion/ judgement, BUT how would you know as Tories & behavioural psychology advisors didn't trust public, so presented as simplistic messages: RULES (follow or else)

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Don't want Cummings hounded out. But think this point is key re why people mad. Guidance always did allow for discretion/ judgement, BUT how would you know as Tories & behavioural psychology advisors didn't trust public, so presented as simplistic messages: RULES (follow or else)

[Christine Louis Dit Sully, PhD, PhD @cricri42]

Great! Support for the #giletsjaunes. It is time the political &cultural elites recognise that ordinary people are not idiots who need to be told how to live & what to think. #Democracy #FreeSpeech

[Christine Louis Dit Sully, PhD, PhD @cricri42]

'foule haineuse' (crowd full of hate) this is how Macron described the #giletsjaunes in his speech for the nation for New Year & this crowd is responding to him today. French people do not make enough effort, Macron said. I hope he sees the effort today with the #giletsjaunes

[Jacques Rancière @JacquesRanciere]

« Où est la #gauche? » demandent les socialistes. La réponse est simple : elles est là où ils l'ont conduite, c'est-à-dire au néant.

[Martin Robinson @Trivium21c]

Please don’t study arts subjects because they build “critical thinking and life skills.” https://t.co/Y7fT6Y1YhV

[Frank Furedi @Furedibyte]

Don't blame the young! They have been socialised by prevailing cultural attitudes and institutions-schools, universities, media- to assume that free speech is not a big deal. https://t.co/wOoxns0UaL

[Shirley Lawes @malgremoi]

@tombennett71 Completely wrong! Lack of confidence in subject knowledge means unconfident teaching and poor learning particularly with inexperienced teachers. eg the idea that a French teacher with a basic knowledge of German can teach both languages equally well is false.

[UCL Press Education Books & Journals @uclpress_ed]

'This book is a call to arms for all #teachers & educators to refocus on the central job of schools: as Matthew Arnold put it, to pass on "the best which has been thought and said".' - @dperks, East London Science School. #curriculum #pedagogy https://t.co/bGWFO3EsN3

[Kenan Malik @kenanmalik]

Looks very good. And, even better, I start my new column (actually, a page) in the new-look Observer. https://t.co/OrKTnZZCLo

[Shirley Lawes @malgremoi]

@kenanmalik Congratulations Kenan. If I'd read your tweet earlier, I would have bought it, will have to seek out some other way.

[Austin Williams @Future_Cities]

Someone has culturally appropriated my Bookshop Barnies and is hosting a Balloon Debate on Monday 11 December. Come along and demand my rights... or just have a beer and enjoy the discussion https://t.co/P4K98Cb8dC #education @instofideas @ProfDHayes @malgremoi @Fox_Claire

[Ella Whelan @Ella_M_Whelan]

Is this a joke? https://t.co/MnDOw7hvYp

[Shirley Lawes @malgremoi]

@BBC100women I can't believe how unbelievably patronising this is. Unless it IS a joke Ella Whelan! If it a piss-take, then it's actually quite funny.

[Shirley Lawes @malgremoi]

@NickGibbUK @Telegraph Learning a foreign language is part of what it means to be educated. Never mind jobs!

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

What a rude, ungenerous comment. Is it suddenly ok to be abusive about wrong kind of women (in name of protection of right kind of women)? https://t.co/zTYTmcObiT

[Shirley Lawes @malgremoi]

@BorderCasual @Fox_Claire Agree. But not just 'saying it like it is' - thoughtful, considered and insightful.

[Shirley Lawes @malgremoi]

@Future_Cities @sandystarr0 I won't be reading any of his books any more!

[Austin Williams @Future_Cities]

What a grotesque, misanthropic & poisonous speech. Wishing people dead to save convincing the living. https://t.co/PMbIIfmqme @sandystarr0

[Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi]

Brief snippet of me trying to be a #youth.