Quote by Michael Morpurgo
When children are very young, you read them books that are positiv

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them. – Michael Morpurgo

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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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Education
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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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Future
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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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My stance has always been that theres no place in our sport for drug users. Ive always said its a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that. – Maurice Greene

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Something Ive noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. Its all positive thinking. – Abbie Cornish

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Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesnt take any brains to complain. – Robert A. Cook

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The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they dont see enough positive role models in their own environment. – Marla Gibbs

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