Beverly Cleary Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

  Beverly Cleary

  Teacher, Children, Reading

• I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

  Beverly Cleary

  Lonely, Children, School

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

• In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

  Beverly Cleary

  School, Years, Ships

• Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

  Beverly Cleary

  School, Thinking, Two

  Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (1995). “Strider”

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