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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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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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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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Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism. – John O. Brennan

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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they… can never be without some element of education. – Nicholas Negroponte

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But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. – Roy Barnes

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