I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

The nation that has the schools has the future.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

The defence budget is one of the very few elements of public expenditure that can truly be described as essential. This point was well-made by a robust Labour Defence Minister, Denis (Now Lord) Healey, many years ago: ‘Once we have cut expenditure to the extent where our security is imperiled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders.’

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.