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Bookends: Volume 3: Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s not necessarily the easiest!

Dear Alex, So much time has passed since you posted, and it seems that my thinking is evolving every day – not just in response to the posting itself, but also in response to real-life, face-to-face conversations we’ve had since … Continue reading

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Bookends: Volume 2: Allow Me to Burst Your Bubble

By the time students enroll in the IB Diploma Programme they have amassed a great deal of knowledge.  My job, as their Theory of Knowledge teacher, is to make them forget it. Alec Peterson, the first Director General of the … Continue reading

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