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Disruptors

Katharine Birbalsingh: Britain's Strictest Head Teacher Talks Culture Building & Jordan Peterson

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Britain’s strictest head teacher joins Rob to talk all about the true meaning of freedom of speech, the issues with culture in the west right now as well as her thoughts on Jordan Peterson and more! Katharine reveals: What speech should and shouldn't be allowed Who really makes the rules in our society Why cancelling people is wrong How the ‘woke’ are destroying the west Also featured What it was like for Katharine to be cancelled The upsides and downsides of building her own school Katharine's thoughts on the education system BEST MOMENTS “ I don’t think there is ever freedom of speech” “We don’t allow for clumsy speech” “The whole anti-racism project is questionable, the idea that you’re a racist if you aren’t an anti-racist” “I don’t understand why we aren't all so grateful for living in the west” “It's how you live, not what you say on social media” “Teachers aren’t normally entrepreneurs” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “The Disruptive Entrepreneur” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything”   CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0

Self-discipline is how you access freedom.

0:03.0

People tend to think freedom is freedom to just do whatever you want.

0:05.6

Anything go, right?

0:06.6

No. Freedom comes from self-control.

0:10.6

Katherine, in today's society, do we have true freedom of speech?

0:15.6

Oh, no, not at all.

0:18.6

In fact, there seems to be less now than there was, say, ten years ago.

0:23.6

Which is, you know, short period of time.

0:27.4

I mean, it's interesting.

0:28.4

I don't think there is ever freedom of speech because, to some extent, I think that's a good thing

0:36.4

in that you don't want to be able to run into a cinema and call fire.

0:41.4

You know, that would be wrong.

0:44.4

So there is some speech that is wrong.

0:47.4

The question is which speech?

0:49.4

So I don't agree, even though I consider myself of the right and so on,

0:55.4

is what I would say.

0:56.4

I'm a conservative.

0:58.4

I don't agree with what the right say when they say we just need to have absolute freedom of speech.

1:03.4

Because there are some speech that is just wrong.

1:07.4

The question is which speech is it?

1:09.4

And these days, we are preventing speech that used to be perfectly normal.

1:20.4

And I don't mean speech that was around the next 70 years ago.

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