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Philip Pullman attacks ‘monstrous’ English education policy | Books | The Guardian

07/07/2018 in Books & Writing, Quotes, Reblogs | Tags: beguile, delight, education, enchant, exams, monstrous, Philip Pullman, poems, stories | 11 comments

‘It’s as if you want to destroy their childhood’ … Philip Pullman. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

“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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