Atmosphere Quote by Donalyn Miller

“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.”

— Sydney Smith

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

— Claire Messud

“Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.”

— Horace Mann

“Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that…

— Gabrielle Zevin

The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

— James W. Loewen

“All English stories get bogged down in whether or not the furniture is socially and aesthetically acceptable.”

— A.S. Byatt

“That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.”

— Sophie Divry

“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

“While we need to stay informed about what they read and remain connected to our students, we don't need to participate in every discussion…

— Donalyn Miller

When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged…

— David Sedaris

“Reading has become schoolwork, not an activity in which students willingly engage outside of school.”

— Donalyn Miller