Edward Blishen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
-- Edward Blishen

#Teacher #Life Is #Mediums
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.
-- Edward Blishen

#Education #Philosophy #Discipline
The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
-- Edward Blishen

#Beautiful #Eye #Editing

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Itâ€™s true: Medium has the best web-based editor Iâ€™ve ever seen. And Iâ€™ve seen them all.
Television is such an evolving medium.
I think ***** is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.

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