Books Quote by Anonymous

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as…

— William James

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them…

— Theresa Breslin

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead…

— Aldous Huxley

“Though I have lived most of my life with educationalists, I have little interest in educa¬ tion. I dislike schools, both for boys and…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live…

— Maria Montessori

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to…

— Orville Prescott

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

— Richard Louv

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever…

— Richard Mitchell

“Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic…

— Madeleine L'Engle