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Professor Dylan Wiliam thinks the calls for a new education debate could delay change. "We don't need one because we know what we need to do" [improve the quality of teaching]. Is the same true of traffic system reform? In the wake of Portishead, Bristol is planning a couple of minor lights-off trials of its own. The elected councillor gets the ideas and wants action on a large scale, but he is trammelled by unelected officers whose raison d'être is to resist change. Done properly - with a campaign to promote a change in culture from priority to equality, and streetscape improvements to express that equality - the trials will prove the obvious: that we are better off making our own judgements on a level playing-field. There are further parallels with traffic control in what Anthony Seldon says: "Our education system is bad at teaching pupils to think. Schools should be places of delight". So should roads, but they are plagued by over-regulation which snuffs it out.

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