EDUCATION: When the wrong answer is ‘right’*

The politically correct bias in schools is so prevalent, it is predictable and therefore exploitable as a path to straight “A” grades, advises Mark Lopez in this extract from The Little Black Schoolbook, published this month.You can probably recall being told the following by a teacher: “It does not matter what you say as long as you argue well.” This is rarely the case and if you follow that advice it is at your peril. The teachers who say this probably do not intend to deliberately mislea…

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