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Turning speaking skills into a graded school subject called "oracy" risks reducing persuasion to marking criteria.
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- Mary Beard British classicist, professor emerita of Classics…
But more than that, it looks all ready to be pared down from a range of complicated ideas about human persuasion to a curricular subject that can be summarized and, inevitably, graded and examined.
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