Education Quote by Stephen D. Krashen Download Open image “Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.” — Stephen D. Krashen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Lists Reading Teaching Time Vocabulary
Reading the dictionary helps me express myself better. I can spend hours flicking through a thesaurus, too. It's not about expanding my vocabulary, it's… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Spending time with a book is much more than just learning to read. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time. In the… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
“Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
I like vocabulary and I actually read a book called 'Word Freak,' which is about a guy who basically went into competitive Scrabble for… — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
