Quote by Philip Pullman
I had passed through the entire British education system studying

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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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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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! – Matthew Arnold

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G.M. Trevelyan

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Education is the mother of leadership. – Wendell Willkie

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Im not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say See, you did it yourself. – Alice Walker

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