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"content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I know there are many of my colleagues who want to support the Motion, but I cannot donate all my ten minutes. I wish to thank all my colleagues who have supported ranking. The great Greek philosopher, Plato, once said: “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” Sometimes what we express is perhaps because of lack of sufficient knowledge. I have heard opinions expressed here that ranking makes people zombies and robots, politicises education through rewards, makes our children be overloaded, leads to vilification of those who do not get good results, can only make sense when all schools have the same facilities, produces students who have closed minds and it is against the poor. Nothing could be further from the truth. For instance, yours truly the Member for Rarieda is a product of ranking. Most of us in this House are products of ranking. If ranking was to---"
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