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Nice Words for a Wednesday evening... | Anne O Gorman Guest Editor Journal
2010-03-24
Nice Words for a Wednesday evening...
Children need to go to the theatre as much as they need to run about in the fresh air. They need to hear real music played by real musicians as much as they need food and drink. They need to read and listen to proper stories as much as they need to be loved and cared for.
The difficulty with persuading grown-up people about this is that if you deprive children of shelter and kindness and food and drink and exercise, they die visibly; whereas if you deprive them of art and music and story and theatre, they perish on the inside, and it doesn`t show
Philip Pullman, Author, His Dark Materials
Inspiring Stuff! You can read the full article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/mar/30/booksforchildrenandteenagers.schools
Did you know that Pullman is a critic of the UK equivalent of garda vetting for writers visiting schools?:
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