Amol Rajan

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3,997 appearances 23 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 16 Jul

Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 23 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 12.

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Radical · The Best of Radical with Amol Rajan · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And he goes on to say something along the lines of good teachers love their pupils, but they love knowledge more. matched

They don't so much see knowledge as a benefit to their pupils anymore. matched

but their pupils as a benefit to knowledge. matched

In other words, the primary purpose of education is the transmission of knowledge through the generations. matched

Now, I get that. matched

Lovely prose. matched

I can quote it. matched

I've read that book a few times. matched

But... matched

That's what I was going to push back on you. matched

I was going to say that if I may say what I was going to kind of push back, though, I get it theoretically and romantically as an instinctive appeal. matched

Something about child centered learning is it's a sort of you might quote Jonathan Haidt. matched

But there is something and I know this is what motivates you. matched

There is something about the love of the child and the love of the child as an individual. matched

I believe that you could maybe be flexible to a greater extent than you are. matched

But some other teachers aren't to kind of accommodate the needs of individual children. matched

Knowledge centric learning is better than child centric learning because? matched

Catherine Burble-Singh there, who is known as Britain's strictest headteacher, perhaps because she is. matched

Of course, I could have chosen all our guests as highlights of my time with Radical. matched

Frankly, and I know I'm a bit biased, I don't think we've had a single Duff episode. matched

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