School Quote by Charles Benoit

“The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.”

— Sam Wineburg

“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to the library,…

— Ron Koertge

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

“Teach a child to read and he/she will pass a literary test.”

— George W. Bush

“Now what good would that have done? They wouldn't know they'd asked a dumb question, but I didn't want to insult them, either. So…

— Harlan Ellison

“But after years of teaching, we have decided that a lot of mothers just aren't reading textbooks.”

— Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg

“how can you read books?”

— Melanie Watt

“We must connect students to books that force them to pay attention, to think and wonder, to imagine and believe, and then read for…

— Peggy Kittle

“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it…

— Mary Stolz

“If the lycée teachers studying this book in their class are now beginning to get nervous, they can advise the students to skip this…

— Orhan Pamuk

“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”

— Lemony Snicket

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

— Sarah Churchwell