Michael Morpurgo Quotes

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

For me, it's vital to continue to share my experiences and allow my experiences to help the younger generation.

My sons are my friends, too, and they have introduced me to new technology and new sounds from around the world. I have learnt a lot from them.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

The biggest change in the world today is that the young don’t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today.

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

For the first time in human history, there are no elders anymore who know what young people know.

Technology has miniaturized the globe, reducing vast oceans to mere ponds. Distant countries are now almost neighbors as our bodies travel faster than the speed of sound and our voices at the speed of light. ... Today the world is not much bigger than a ball spinning on the finger of science.

We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them.

My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.