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Will Knowland, Eton and the problem with the teaching misconduct panel

17 August 2021

11:04 PM

17 August 2021

11:04 PM

When Eton master Will Knowland was sacked last year over anti-feminist views contained in a YouTube video which he refused to take down, alumni and others rightly called out Eton’s small-mindedness and intellectual conformism. If the best-endowed schools in the land can’t stomach unorthodox opinion, what hope for UK education generally?

They were, of course, entirely right.

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