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Preserving students’ self-esteem?
In his book Spoilt rotten: the toxic cult of sentmentality (2011), Theodore Dalrymple writes: “a friend of mine who teaches history at Oxford is specifically enjoined by the guidelines provided for markers [of papers, exams] by the authorities not to mark … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar mistakes, spelling errors, Theodore Dalrymple, University of Oxford
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