Jim Trelease Quotes

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• The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
• Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two…
• What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.
• Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot…
• Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
• We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.
• You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of books even before…
• No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25…
• Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in…
• If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.
• The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the…
• A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor…

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