Books Quote by Orhan Pamuk

“The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over…

— Charles Benoit

“While we need to stay informed about what they read and remain connected to our students, we don't need to participate in every discussion…

— Donalyn Miller

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

— Wally Lamb

“We must connect students to books that force them to pay attention, to think and wonder, to imagine and believe, and then read for…

— Peggy Kittle

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

“This book is dedicated to every teacher who loves to teach but hates all the crap that comes with it...”

— Omar Akbar

Students: did you hated when your Professors gave exams, and some of the books on the class reading list they actually wrote.

— JOHN REYES

Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but…

— Neil Postman

“A book isn’t rigorous if students aren’t reading it.”

— Penny Kittle

“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my…

— Azar Nafisi

“They teach everything at schools but there is no textbook to teach how to get acquainted to a person.”

— Bernhard Kellermann

No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

— E. W. Howe