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One Saturday last July, a couple of hundred people gathered in a conference centre on the bank of the Thames to talk about education. In an earlier life they were lawyers, bankers, engineers, publishers and software engineers, but now they are all secondary school teachers and here they were giving up part of their weekend

Our blindness to ageism is puzzling as it is a prejudice against our future selves

Not only is age the poor relation in diversity policies, it is still perfectly acceptable in polite society to be rampantly ageist.