Enid Blyton Quotes
We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
Blyton, Enid. Letter to Peter McKellar, 1953. Quoted in Barbara Stoney, Enid Blyton: The Biography, Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, p. 169.
With the exception of a few theocracies, the power to set standards of education is claimed by virtually every government in the world. Some national governments have traditionally delegated some or much of the power to state, regional or local governments. The United States has been one of the rare exceptions. The words “education” or “schools” never even appear once in the U. S. Constitution. Therefore, in the U. S. the power belongs with the state governments. (Recently with “No Child Left Behind” the U. S. Federal government has been involved in educational standards setting.) This quotation is used by many as a classic example of a practice of many right wing fundamentalist Christians and Jews who extrapolate from the Bible to determine which legislation God wants or opposes. Most Christian and Jewish clerics and theologians however reject this notion and have a more modern view of the role of God in the democratic political process. Both the United States and Canada have very small minorities who hold the Stockwell Day position. On difference however is that in the United States, such extreme fundamentalists rarely enter or succeed in politics.
Enid Mary Blyton was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages. As of June 2018, Blyton is in the 4th place for the most translated author. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven, and Malory Towers.
