Quotes About Education

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'

At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers.

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

I'm a lousy reader.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm not really a big reader.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.