No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Words are the voice of the heart.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
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