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James Rainsford
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I discovered today, that Amazon are offering to gift wrap my book. That's very thoughtful of them, especially so close to Christmas. Here'a a link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Education-Edu...
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Education Edukation Edukashun
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2009
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This was a funny and entertaining book and a very intriguing and enlightening insight into the inner workings of the comprehensive education system. Rainsford has created believable and recognisable characters in both the teaching staff and the pu...
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I won this book on Goodreads First Reads, and finished reading it a few days ago. When starting the first chapter I wasn't sure whether I was going to enjoy the book as it isn't the type of book I normally read, but after getting a few chapters in...
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"The covers of this book are too far apart."
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"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."
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Flannery O'Connor
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**WARNING: Don't read this if you don't want the ending spoiled!**
This book...I hate it! It's beautiful, every word of it is gorgeous, but it's as if the author spends all this time painstakingly crafting a really detailed, intricate vessel for yo... " Read more of this review » |
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"Education, Edukation, Edukashun
Education, Edukation, Edukashun, the most hilarious, entertaining and enlightening account of modern British education...more " |
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“It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ”
― Anthony Robbins
― Anthony Robbins
“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher.
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher.
“I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.”
― Eric Sykes
― Eric Sykes
“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”
― Flannery O'Connor
― Flannery O'Connor
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