Children About Reading Quotes

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush

Children, Stupid, Silly

"Why Palin doesn't need National Grammar Day" by Robert Lane Greene, www.cnn.com. March 5, 2011.

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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Children, Book

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It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

Katherine Paterson

Happiness, Children, Attitude

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Book, Reading, Library

Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Inspirational, Funny, Smile

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

Funny, Friendship, Education

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

Mem Fox

Children, Reading, Medicine

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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.

S. I. Hayakawa

Life, Book, Reading

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Francis Bacon

Inspirational, Book, Reading

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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.

Marilyn Jager Adams

Children, Reading, Skills

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It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Katherine Paterson

Children, Reading, Giving

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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness, Attitude, Book

Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Margaret Mead

Education, Teacher, Children

Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

Sidney Sugarman

Education, Teacher, Children

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Mortimer Adler

Inspirational, Life, Reading

"How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

J. K. Rowling

Reading, Stories, Lasts

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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.

Roald Dahl

Motivational, Wall, Book

Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Harry S. Truman

Happiness, Attitude, Book

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Kate DiCamillo

Children, Reading, Literacy

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Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

George Carlin

Faith, Children, Learning

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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr. Seuss

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Happiness, Education

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Judy Blume

Children, Freedom, Philosophy

FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Apr 16, 2013

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Reading, Book, Thinking

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