I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
A lot of children like I did move away from words because of the fear – which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get detention worrying about letting people down your parents teachers.
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I have maintained a passionate interest in education which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.
