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David Starkey
1945 • English • Historian
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Showing 5 quotesFloating the idea that every kid in Brixton can become a whizkid at information technology is dishonest.— David Starkey
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We are dangerously devaluing knowledge and learning by no longer having a requirement to remember anything at all.— David Starkey
The food of my childhood was revolting because I was a child of rationing. However, I still managed to be a very plump child and, indeed, as a teenager, positively fat. In my early twenties I lost three stone in one summer using the only diet that works: the pure protein diet. I kept to it until I was about 50.— David Starkey