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.
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
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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.
