A List of What They Don’t Teach You in School, According to Neil Gaiman

The famed author of Coraline offers his terse and insightful observations on what gets taught in school. And what doesn’t. What would the teachers, parents, and students you know add to this list? (James Baldwin might add a few things, I bet.)

 

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Neil Gaiman // “I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.”

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