"We can't have this namby-pamby stand in education where we don't like winners and losers, we just like winners."
#BarrySoper, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=199b86ae-c200-4075-ab0c-f5dec7f2b80f
Why not? Why would we choose to structurally frame people struggling at school as "losers"? Why choose to make education a zero-sum game, when there's no evidence that moving away from that toxic framing does any harm?
