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Sep 30, 2025
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Love of books is the best of all.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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