Ansgar Allen is lecturer in education at the University of Sheffield and the author of The Cynical Educator and Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason.
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Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly—'I hate to be a cynic, but . . .'—before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing posi... SEE MORE