Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am…

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be…

— John Dewey

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately…

— Anonymous

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

— Anonymous

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

— Ray Charles

“learning to read awoke a touching thirst for knowledge. ‘Send me a list of books published on comets, stars, water, the earth, and sky.”

— S.A. Smith

“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and is best…

— Andrew Cook

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for…

— Marilyn Jager Adams

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch…

— John Steinbeck

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the…

— John Steinbeck

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might…

— Hannah More

“I remembered how it had been first learning to read, how the squiggles of print finally organized themselves slowly and painfully into words, then…

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

— Adam Hamilton

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I…

— Ana Tijoux

The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read…

— Maryanne Wolf