“The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.” Philip Pullman
via Philip Pullman attacks ‘monstrous’ English education policy | Books | The Guardian
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I fully agree with Pullman. This recent change to the curriculum was dreamed up by Goofy, who’s obsessed with the least creative of subjects (STEM). This guarantees an even wider spread of illiteracy than we have already. And Goofy’s own qualifications in education? Zero. His speciality is pontification to anyone who’ll listen..
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They need to put the ‘A’ back in … STEAM … it’s not rocket science! 🙂
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There’s little left if delight is taken away. Children should also learn to understand.
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Things must have changed a lot since my day. Having to read serious literature for the exams is what got me interested in writing at the time.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Just to let you know your post with the F…the critics on your site has not loaded in reader ….. Ian
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That’s a bore – it’s from The Guardian as well! I’ll asterisk the title and if that doesn’t work, I’ll do the same in the body of the post. Thanks for letting me know.
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Another thought – it might be people’s individual settings. Anyway, I’ve done the asterisks.
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You saw my post here over using anything on Facebook and all my pages, groups and account is now blocked well WP does the same on posts with pictures and certain words might be the F-word hit their scanner …
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Here’s the post https://acenewsservices.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/thursday-facebook-blocked-our-news-pages-groups-and-account-over-telling-the-truth-in-our-posts-and-not-false-news-as-with-some-other-media-organisations/
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Hear, hear!
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GREAT POST 👌
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