Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Why the statues must stay | The Brendan O'Neill Show" video.

  1. A 4th g-grandfather of mine was a teacher in the Far North of Scotland. In the early 1800s, he taught three foreign languages, English, Latin, Greek, the Classics, and the whole curriculum of maths, sciences, literature, history, geography, scripture etc. In a two roomed schoolhouse, in one of the most remote areas in the British Isles. To tenant crofters' children from age 5 to, if they were very lucky, 14-15. It enabled his pupils and his children to rise out of poverty and achieve amongst national and international society. Some of his descendants reached headteacher status in Scotland and much further afield. One of my children is the 8th in an unbroken line of teachers. Underlining Marie Kawthar Daoud's contention that a deeper knowledge of what there is to learn profoundly empowers and enables people, and makes them world citizens.
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  2. And you too! It's turned out to be a lovely sunny spring-like day here. A very refreshing, hopeful sign.
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