The Importance of Robust Civility in Education

In Germany Tilo Saar's book sold 1.3 million copies, but it was a failing of too much civility and we start punching each other on the nose. I mentioned in the book a fantastic experiment that's been done in some English schools. It's called constructive controversy. You find a controversial topic, then you work out who thinks what about it,. Then you say, okay, Mary, you make the case for, and you know, who's saying you make theCase against. And then you say, now you've got to swap. And you'vegot to make the case from the other side. So techniques, pedagogical techniques like that, I think is