Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Great Regulars: As a result of the way that class

and poverty impact on education, there are hundreds of thousands of children who will only come across books when they are in school.

Those children face education with one hand tied behind their backs. They are not immersed in a kind of language and a way of thinking that matches the way schools deal with ideas, debate, thought and knowledge.

from Michael Rosen: Socialist Worker: Michael Rosen's favourite children's books

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