Background
- Born in
- Liverpool
- Educated at
- University of LondonUniversity of LeedsBretton Hall CollegeLiverpool Collegiate SchoolWade Deacon High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Benjamin Franklin Medal🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 George Peabody Medal🏆 honorary doctorate
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"I saw a well-meaning policy statement that said ‘College begins in Kindergarten'. No it doesn’t, Kindergarten begins in Kindergarten. A friend of mine once said ‘A Three-Year old is not half a Six-Yea…"
"It is my contention that Creativity is as important today in Education as Literacy and we should treat it with the same status."
"We have sold ourselves into a fast-food model of education. And it’s impoverishing our spirits and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies."
"If you’re doing something you love, an hour seems like 5 minutes. If you are doing something that doesn’t resonate with your spirit 5 minutes can seem like an hour. And the reason that so many people …"
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