Academic Quote by George Will

Kids who read are bright.

— Ravi Subramanian

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books…

— Tom Petty

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

— Charlotte Mason

“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

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

When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took me to…

— Anh Do

“Students who do not develop reading fluency, regardless of how bright they are, are likely to remain poor readers throughout their lives.”

— 2000 National Reading Panel

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning…

— James P. Comer

Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And…

— Daniel Goleman

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when…

— Michael Morpurgo

How will they learn to read? you ask, and my answer is Remember the lessons of Massachusetts. When children are given whole lives instead…

— John Taylor Gatto