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The Rubin Report

Problems & Solutions with Education (Katharine Birbalsingh Interview)

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Katharine Birbalsingh (headmistress) joins Dave to discuss her founding of Michaela Community School - a free school established in London, and her journey from the left to the right, her approach to disciplining children, the importance of valuing knowledge, believing in equality of opportunity, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Join me today as a New Zealand-born author, speaker, and founder and head mistress of

0:10.4

Michaela Community School, a free school established in London all the way back in 2014.

0:16.4

Katherine Burble Singh, welcome to the Ruben Report.

0:19.0

Hi, hi.

0:20.0

I'm very happy to have you here.

0:21.8

Well, thank you.

0:22.8

I have heard a rumor that you sometimes play my videos in your classrooms.

0:29.9

Well, I don't know about the classrooms, but among staff, yeah.

0:33.0

Among staff in the school, somewhere in the school.

0:35.5

Yeah, in the school, definitely.

0:37.5

We're all great fans.

0:38.5

Thank you.

0:39.5

For our two controversial to play in the classroom.

0:41.4

Yeah, I think so, I think so.

0:43.2

There's so much I want to talk to you about education, your personal sort of political

0:48.3

evolution, all the things that you've been through.

0:50.7

So I always like finding out a little bit about somebody's history at the top.

0:54.5

And you come from a long line of teachers and some interesting background stuff.

0:59.5

So tell me a little bit about young Katherine.

1:03.0

Well, my parents, my father is Indian Guinees.

1:06.4

My mom is Drankin, Black Drankin.

1:09.0

I say that because the whole race thing is important, you know, bizarrely, because these

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