Bent Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

“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

The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he…

— Elizabeth Bowen

The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in…

— Mary Oliver

“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which…

— John S. Savage

“He believed in the unarguable notion that if a young person is lucky enough to read the right books at the right time in…

— Charles Cumming

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is…

— Norman MacCaig

“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one…

— Helen Keller

“This is how I show my students that I love them—by putting books in their hands, by noticing what they are about, and finding…

— Donalyn Miller

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

“I do not think it is wise to force them to study one thing or another, although persuading them to do so would not…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages,…

— Neal Shusterman