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3rd February 1995, 12:00am

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Why is it that in too many primary schools, learning by ‘doing’ is preferred to teaching by ‘telling’ to the point where sitting pupils down and telling them things becomes almost a ‘marginal’ strategy?” Chris Woodhead, Chief HMI, in his report on 1994 published this week

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