Katharine Birbalsingh on the Failure of Progressive Education

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this fascinating episode we got to speak to Katharine Birbalsingh, founder and headmistress of Michaela Community School, a free school in London. 00.00.39 The Problem with Progressive Education 00.43.02 The Politics of Education Follow Katharine: https://twitter.com/Miss_Snuffy Blog: https://tomisswithloveblog.wordpress.com/ Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm…52LB5C&source=url Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:30.2	When they join the school, I tell them, I am the dragon lady do not mess with me and I'm really I say it like that I say to them the day I send my child to your school I will do what you say. Hello and welcome to Trigonometry, I'm Francis Foster.
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0:53.7	internet having arguments of something they know nothing about. At trigonometry, we don't
0:58.4	pretend to be the experts, we ask the experts. Our fantastic expert guests this week is the head mistress of the Michaela Free School here in London.
1:07.0	Catherine Burbl Singh, welcome to Trigonometry.
1:09.0	Hi there.
1:10.0	Hi, thanks for having me.
1:11.0	It's so good to have you here. We know everything about you. We've seen the gray interview you did with Dave Rubin and others.
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