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Month: January 2017

Elizabeth Howard obituary

Elizabeth Howard, who has died aged 96, was one of those teachers who change lives. Not only did her English classes produce an above-average number of poets, actors and writers, they also engendered in many a lifelong love of...

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Knowing the names of things

Many people have written many thousands of words about the difference between knowledge and understanding, but I think Richard Feynman nails it here: You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when...

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