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Work needed on industry placements for teachers

The 19th-century American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed: "Experience is the only teacher and we get his lessons indifferently in any school."

Presumably, that is the brand of thinking behind the suggestion in a Scottish Government-backed report, published today, which suggests that teachers should regularly leave the classrooms for the shop floor or the office, so as to attune their teaching to what will be expected of their pupils in the world of work.

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