29 Quotes by David Puttnam

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    There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

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    Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

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    At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

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    There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

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    My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

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    A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

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    What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

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    The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

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