As A Young Child My Attention Span

Animals Are Sentient, Intelligent, Perceptive, Funny And Entertaining. We Owe Them A Duty Of Care As We Do To Children.

I Think People Are More In Contact Now With The Consequences Of War Than They've Been For A Very Long Time. And That's What Amazes Me When Sometimes Politicians Seem To Forget Their History. They Don't Look And Re-learn About What Has Happened Before. Maybe They Haven't Got The Memory, Maybe They're Already Too Young, But You Can See How We Become Puffed Up, And How We As A Nation Rise So Quickly If We're Not Careful.

Perhaps It Is Partly That We Need To Love Books Ourselves As Parents, Grandparents And Teachers In Order To Pass On That Passion For Stories To Our Children. It's Not About Testing And Reading Schemes, But About Loving Stories And Passing On That Passion To Our Children.

Theatre Can Transform A Child's Life, Just As An Early Cultural Experience Whether With Opera, Ballet, Music Or Art Is A Wonderful Thing Because It Opens The Door To A Life-long Experience, A Life-long Enjoyment.

Children Have To Be Motivated To Want To Learn To Read. Reading Must Not Be Taught Simply As A School Exercise.