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The funny thing is that in the seminar

she didn't feel she had to defend it.

seminar we had before she, in fact

In a smaller

criticized

it quite a lot, and the funny thing is that in
the wider situation where the attack might have
been coming from other areas as well she felt
compelled to defend it.

Yeah but she wasn't saying it was perfect.
She was indicating there were faults with it.

I think she was just trying to counteract the

sort of,

the totally negative criticism.

I don't think we were being negative
actually .

Well, that’s how she saw it.

Well that's what I mean,
say about defensive.

That’s what I

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After Tuesday teaching when we talked about
the programme, the guy was talking to us and he
was sitting there very smugly as if to say, you
know, you've got all these naive ideas, I mean

I thought that very acutely.

I felt as if I

was being acused of having naive ideas and that
we represented the theory side of it and he was
representing reality and anything we said he
seemed to laugh smugly to himself about.

I thought he was incredibly defensive but
there is another teacher at that school who said

today

Oh, I used to go to the Institute and

just forget it.

The opposite has happened to me actually
where I went into a class and the bloke said

to me

Look, I don’t know anything about this,

you're at the Institute, you know more about

it than I do

which is ridiculous, you know,

I didn't know what the hell to say.

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