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I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. – Philip Pullman

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What I couldnt help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than Id learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. – Philip Pullman

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Morning
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We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. – Philip Pullman

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Fate
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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and theyd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! – Philip Pullman

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Education
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

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Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education. – John Bruton

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Education

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. – Mary Astell

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Education

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. – Daniel Goleman

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Education

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. – Lysander Spooner

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