“…First, the specific educational proposals are regarded with suspicion, being criticised, albeit politely, as being a mixture of ‘good‐natured libertarianism [and] overreaction to positivist models of science’ (Cordero, , p. 20). Second, the wider political ideas which inform those proposals have met with similar scepticism, being judged by Feyerabend scholars as being of much less value than his contributions to the history and philosophy of science (see, for instance, Oberheim, , p. 22 and Preston, , Chapter 10).…”