"The prime purpose of being four is to……" — Jim Trelease
"The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five."
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12 Quotes by Jim Trelease
Jim Trelease has 12 quotes on this site.
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Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice,…
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What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.
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Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those…
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Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
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We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.
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You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the…
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No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must…
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Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are…
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If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.
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The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the…
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A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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