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
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
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. – Philip Pullman
True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility. – Philip Pullman
What the mayors care about is, How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint? – Michael Nutter
Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals. – Barbara Ehrenreich