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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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Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large dont try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if theyve loved a story they love to know how it started. – 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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It is the childs understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. Theyre still doing it today with modern technology. – Michael Morpurgo

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