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- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020