“It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.”
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Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
