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France is Bacon

France is Bacon

If knowledge is power then just how powerful is the new draft Australian curriculum?

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Apr 29, 2021
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It was Francis Bacon, the English enlightenment philosopher, who claimed that ‘knowledge is power’. What better demonstration is there of this simple truth than the news that China is about to launch the first section of its new space station. Science and technology have come together to make a statement of global significance.

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