The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming …

- Edward Blishen

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

- Edward Blishen

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

- Edward Blishen