Books Quote by Doris Lessing

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much.…

— Doris Lessing

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

— Elizabeth Wein

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

— Ilya Ehrenburg

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies.…

— Gore Vidal

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be…

— John Dewey

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth;…

— Jill Paton Walsh

Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and…

— Kurt Hahn

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

— Anonymous

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.

— Margaret Drabble

I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to…

— David Small

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Young people's reading choices are influenced by their peers.

— Stephen D. Krashen