Quote of the week

21st February 2003, 12:00am

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Quote of the week

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‘The reason you put a book in front of a child is for the child to enjoy it, to learn to love reading. Books are not just there to be used as exercises’

Michael Morpurgo, one of 80 children’s authors and illustrators calling for an end to national tests in schools

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