Education Quote by Stephen D. Krashen Download Open image “The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.” — Stephen D. Krashen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drop School Education Fail Fail Drop Failing Failure Firsts Literate Literate Fail School
We know that literate people are more likely than others to participate in their societies' democratic institutions and that the risk of war drops… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
The thing that what we're taught in the public school system is everything you should know, I disagree with that. The most brilliant people… — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't. — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of… — Kate Garraway Copy Share Image
Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. — 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
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
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo 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
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