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

~David Puttnam

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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.

~David Puttnam

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At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

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As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

~David Puttnam

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Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

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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.

~David Puttnam

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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.

~David Puttnam

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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.

~David Puttnam

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I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

~David Puttnam

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Producer

Born: February 25th, 1941

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