Quote by Michael Morpurgo
Everyone is interested in war, in that people dont want it to happ

Everyone is interested in war, in that people dont want it to happen. Im much more interested in peace than in war but its important to understand why we fight. – Michael Morpurgo

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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks youll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers. – Michael Morpurgo

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Education
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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our childrens right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future. – Michael Morpurgo

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Education
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One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail. – Michael Morpurgo

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I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook. – Shimon Peres

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For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace. – Ehud Olmert

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If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. – Joichi Ito

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