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You don’t stop loving people because aren’t nice and you can’t stop loyalty if it happens to be in your blood.

don’t stop loving people because aren’t nice and you can’t stop loyalty if it happens to be in your blood.

The aim of identifying areas of learning is to help adults to create a balance, to address all the different, equally important areas of what children gain across the years of early childhood.

Young children are important as themselves; they are not pre-anything. For this reason I avoid using the word ‘pre-schooler’ to refer to children under five years. We do not call adolescents ‘pre-workers’ or people in their fifties ‘pre-retirees’!

However, in my view, calling young children themselves ‘pre-schoolers’ seriously increases the risk that their learning and experiences are valued only as school preparation.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

He deals in litter and detritus; his judgement is not always sound and he knows the symptoms of loneliness like the noise of his own breath.

you can’t stop loyalty if it happens to be in your blood.

What distinguishes this book and those that follow and what makes them classics of a kind is this marvellous quality of compassion and the celebration of all that is heroic in the corrupted ordinary. Devlin and his author love and forgive their clients and their friends even when they hate them, and that is the lot of the humane man. You don’t stop loving people because aren’t nice and you can’t stop loyalty if it happens to be in your blood.