Children Quote by Dirk Kempthorne

“quantitative evidence that teaching children to read from age five is not likely to make that child any more successful at reading than a…

— Terry Marselle

Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.

— Edward Albert

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

— John Rowland

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing…

— Walter Dean Myers

If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later,…

— Mem Fox

There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science,…

— David Coleman

Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read,…

— Frank Zappa

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early…

— Laura Bush

“Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when…

— Peter S. Jennison

The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it.…

— Jon Scieszka

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

— Joan Collins

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look…

— Jimmy Carr