Education reform Quote by Elizabeth A. Baker

Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the…

— Irina Bokova

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

— Peter Drucker

“Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in…

— John Kendrick Bangs

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

— Thomas A. Edison

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

— David Warlick

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our…

— Hugh Mackay

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

— Stephen D. Krashen

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be…

— Margaret Atwood

“No matter what our curriculum requires us to teach or how little class time we have, children must read a lot in order to…

— Donalyn Miller

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century…

— William J. Clinton

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

— Rick Riordan