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But there is also humour in the quest for truth.
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It blends humour and passion, for example, in the author's entanglement in a local-government consultative exercise.
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So, for Professor Broadfoot, the key ingredients of good teaching included: creating an atmosphere of mutual respect and fairness in the classroom, providing opportunities for "active learning" and humour to encourage pupil engagement, making learning interesting, and explaining things clearly.
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He also won the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for humour in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
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And his latest book called The Best of Worlds is set in Barcelona, but in a way he merely uses Barcelona as a kind of back drop for the black humour which has made him famous.
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People who took their place opposite him one by one, clutching a scrap of paper bearing the address of an overseas relative or else the business card of some European traveller, unwittingly exchanged in a moment of good humour for a lifetime of another person's hopes.
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