“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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Category: education
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“Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.”
— Michael Morpurgo
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Category: funny
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“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”
— Michael Morpurgo
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Category: hope
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“Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable.”
— Michael Morpurgo
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“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
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Category: positive
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“Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.”
— Michael Morpurgo
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Category: morning
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