Joe Nutt
@joenutt_author
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Author, essayist & international educational consultant in: @TheCriticMag, @TheSpectator, @Quillette, @AreoMagazine, @CSquireMagazine. Reads poetry.
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Joined August 2017
My latest essay. Please take the time to read because if you do, I think you’ll see why it matters.
JOE NUTT: 'When Oct 7th was immediately followed not by unanimous dismay but by malevolent equivocation from many, I felt horribly unmoored; as though my essential identity was suddenly being questioned' @joenutt_author #csm #Israel
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Reform can’t just come through Parliament, we need to fundamentally readdress the way the BBC and others treat the English language. My recent essay on the woefully degraded state of the English language.
JOE NUTT: 'Postmodernist thinking in its crudest, radical form has permeated every stage of education, from the nursery to the university' @joenutt_author #csm
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RT @LexAlteth: This Cabinet is the first in history where not a single member went to a Private School. I think that’s an amazing advert f….
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RT @JoJaygo18: Lordy if this doesn’t send a message to the @UKLabour I don’t know what will. Hard nosed northern Labour voters would prefe….
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RT @Sean_Walsh_1967: Another reason to be as offensive as possible within the constraints of English decency. Screw these people.
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RT @KonstantinKisin: In 1981, in communist Russia my mother applied to university. The application form had one critical question: class ba….
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The idea that you would appoint anyone to perform a professional role, for any other reason than their ability to deliver what’s needed, is absolutely and always perniciously damaging for everyone concerned. Just look at the cabinet.
This former council house corner boy calls bullshit. We want the best people to run our public services not the winners of some prolaterian bingo game designed by people bred in think tanks.
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While we have politicians who often appear to be proud of how poorly read they are.
Adam Smith's favourite book was Gulliver's Travels; Horatio Nelson quoted Shakespeare; Tesla thought of the induction motor while reciting Goethe; in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson drew on Milton; to reimagine the universe, Darwin had to read Paradise Lost obsessively.
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RT @sharrond62: My son’s primary school wants him to call a non-binary teacher ‘Mx’. We should not be forcing anyone, especially children t….
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Confusion about the rights of staff to have their identity recognised is undermining the right of pupils to be protected from dogma
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RT @PlatoonPod: The UK's Science, Innovation & Technology Minister flunked secondary school, had to apply three times to get accepted on an….
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Hard to think of a better indication of the shocking reality that we're no longer a civilised nation, than the sight of people who no doubt consider themselves educated; attempting to justify the closure of schools, the ruination of children's lives & thousands of job losses.
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RT @Fox_Claire: Cancelling Jews is well and truely alive & well at Edinburgh Fringe - makes festival's commitment to artistic freedom a sic….
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Guessing either he doesn’t have kids, or he hasn’t the faintest idea about what life at such schools actually consists of.
The amount private schools achieve with huge advantages has always seemed completely pathetic to me. The amount of e.g. modern and ancient languages, science and maths, programming etc you could teach given very high ability intakes and multiples of state school spend per pupil.
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RT @BDSixsmith: A fantastic piece on the Online Safety Act from the great and powerful @meIisactu .
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What if a rogue AI impersonated a child and had sex with another child — a real one this time — while both were dressed as animals in a virtual reality chat room? Would it be rape?
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RT @OllyMetcalfe: For every school that @UKLabour's education tax closes, teachers, TAs, cooks, cleaners, gardeners, etc. lose their jobs.….
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If you think this is OK you’re either Bridget Phillipson, Rachel Reeves or some other walking human nightmare, because I’ve never worked anywhere in the world, where it would be considered OK.
Well done @RachelReevesMP @Keir_Starmer after 183 years of being a school #MountStMarys #TheMount in 6 months you have managed to shut it leaving 500 and kids and their teachers with no school to go to and parents desperately trying find places in schools in the state system
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RT @JoJaygo18: This is terrible for those children and people who have lost their jobs. We can’t say it enough that @bphillipsonMP should….
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This man really needs to find a better hobby. The damage they do to real schools and children, when they con weak-minded politicians, is unforgivable.
You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”.
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RT @ArchRose90: Thangam Debbonaire sums up the attitude of Labour politicians. Arrogant, insufferable, sneering and confidence which far ex….
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