{"id":420,"date":"2011-01-26T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=420"},"modified":"2011-01-26T21:24:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T20:24:58","slug":"another-boost-for-liberal-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/01\/26\/another-boost-for-liberal-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Another boost for liberal education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given how dire so many are, it is often hard to know how (or whether) to respond to a questionnaire, even when it is in your area. \u00a0A sense of responsibility says, do it; the need for quality of life retorts, don't be daft. \u00a0A long time ago now, a colleague was faced with a questionnaire that had a tear-off corner which showed his unique response number \u2013 the idea being that he could remove this if he wished anonymity of response. \u00a0As the instrument in question was right down there with UNESCO \/ UNECE standards of Absolute Direness, he decided to throw the questionnaire away, but return the tear-off corner.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, perhaps, I was reminded of this when I read a response from a parent to an investigation of a school-based initiative that was encouraging the child to discuss <em><strong>xxxx<\/strong><\/em> at home (a popular obsession, this school to home transfer, as you know).<\/p>\n<p>It said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>My child\u2019s involvement in xxxx has had Zero impact (non, nil, zilch) on discussions at home. This is a good thing as time given over to this, to meet the latest government fads is time taken away from real education (by which I mean liberal education rooted in subject-based knowledge, but I doubt you would understand that). <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Perfect ...<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given how dire so many are, it is often hard to know how (or whether) to respond to a questionnaire, even when it is in your area. \u00a0A sense of responsibility says, do it; the need for quality of life...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}