Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
Edward Blishen
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
Edward Blishen
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
Edward Blishen
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.