Reading Quote by Donalyn Miller

“In other words, in an age of great shifts in education, very little has shifted when it comes to the teaching of adolescent readers.…

— Kelly Gallagher

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

— Horace Mann

“With such a complicated and crucial part of a child's education in jeopardy, there are many forces at work -- a sort of conspiracy…

— Rafe Esquith

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

— Michael Morpurgo

“Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and is best…

— Andrew Cook

“Life's book is hard to understand; Why couldst thou not remain at school?”

— Charles Hanson Towne

“The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton

“It's not what you do, read or write. It's about the impact you leave for others to learn from. That is the whole wisdom…

— Rita A. Barnes