Learning To Read Quotes - Page 2

• In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

  Alice Mattison

  School, Culture, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

  Daniel Handler

  Baby, Congratulations, Yesterday

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• This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

  Ray Charles

  Music, Memories, Play

  "Quotes: Ray Charles in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2004.

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• But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

  Daniel Handler

  Sarcastic, Baby, Congratulations

  "The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 12)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), October 18, 2005.

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• Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.

  Alonso Duralde

  Reading, Kids, Ideas

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most of our early learning came not from being explicitly taught but from experiencing. Kids aren't born knowing hard and soft, sweet and sour, red and green. When the child experiences those things, s/he transforms them into psychological understandings. When kids play with other kids, they learn about others and about themselves. Learning the basics of our physical and social reality is what early childhood is all about.

  David Elkind

  Sweet, Children, Reading

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.

  Immortal Technique

  Thinking, Media, Different

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

  Dolly Parton

  Book, Kids, Information

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• It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

  Hannah More

  Time, Might, Expenses

  Hannah More (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, containing notices of Lord Macaulay's youth: Edited and arranged by Arthur Roberts”, p.197

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• My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Father, Writing, Culture

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Helping, Language

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• My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

  Ana Tijoux

  Kids, Boys, Years

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• I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mother, Thinking, Play

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• When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

  Michael J. Schmoker

  Reading, Years, Process

  Michael J. Schmoker (2011). “Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning”, p.105, ASCD

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• Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

  Rebecca West

  People, Doe, Literature

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• My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.

  Andre-Marie Ampere

  Father, Animal, Bird

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• I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Book, Opportunity

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• Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, People, Effort

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.10, Penguin

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• Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Learning, Science, Land

  "Our Mobile Earth". Book by Reginald Aldworth Daly, Chapter I, p. 5, 1926.

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• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  Adam Hamilton

  Light, Critical, Written

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

  Janis Ian

  Book, Avid, Car

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• My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

  Mark E. Smith

  Memories, Three, Muffins

  "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

  Vonda N. McIntyre

  Reading, Fiction Novels, Firsts

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