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Should teachers be more caring?

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Is more warmth and love in out classrooms the best way to improve learning? That's a suggestion being made today at the Festival of Education.

Dr Andrew Curran, a paediatric neurologist from Alder Hey Children's Hospital, and Francis Gilbert, a secondary school teacher, consider whether the notion could work.


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