"Each country thinks its school is in a……" — Daniel Pennac
"Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it."
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14 Quotes by Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennac has 14 quotes on this site.
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I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
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L’architecture est art de suggestion.
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All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all…
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I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
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The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect,…
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Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.'…
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Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to…
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Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.
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A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.
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We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s…
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We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because…
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When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
— Margaret Atwood
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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