Clause36
Education and Inspections Bill
12:15 pm
Sarah Teather (Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Education & Skills; Brent East, Liberal Democrat)
Many music teachers may well dispute the argument that one cannot be taught how to hear pitch, or that that ability will not improve with teaching. I certainly do.
Does the Minister not recognise that in 2003, the chief schools adjudicator, Philip Hunter, said about specialist schools that finding a difference between the meaning of ability and aptitude was
“the sort of exercise lexicographers get up to when they haven’t enough to do”?