My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books but they encouraged me to read which I did randomly and compulsively.
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate and...
I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at...
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump I can tell you. We had...
I apologize for being obvious but every time I watch the curtain come down...
I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite...
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error...
By concentrating on what is good in people by appealing to their idealism...
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable...
In Holland they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have...
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education and my hopes of...
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are...
I feel like in America we don't have a kid problem. You think about all...
Even on education his one accomplishment the Leave No Child Behind Act and...
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
In England literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our...
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and...
A lot of people criticize the primaries but I think they are absolutely...