Quote by Michael Morpurgo
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend

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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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. – Michael Morpurgo

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War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the pity of war as Wilfred Owen called it. – Michael Morpurgo

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon

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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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Responsibility educates. – Wendell Phillips

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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. – John Lubbock

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