Education Quotes by Philip Pullman

11 Education quotes by Philip Pullman

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Pullman’s ten‑plus musings on schooling weave imagination with critique, reminding readers that learning can be both adventurous and rebellious. Each line feels like a whispered challenge to conventional curricula.

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We have to learn everything we do.

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True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

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Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting…

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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 they'd…

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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…

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“But if we get education right... it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins nowhere else but in delight, and…

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If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and…

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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…

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Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to…

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“Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be…

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The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was…

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Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite…

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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon…

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I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

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All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He…

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What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training…

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Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

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“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we…

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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…

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