Quotes About Education

I like the idea of young readers using my stories as a sort of moral gym, where they can flex and develop their newly developed moral muscle.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

I'm hoping that I make readers into museum goers and museum goers into readers.

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

When the Hyderabad Chapter of TFI approached me to be a part of their Leaders in Classroom event, I readily agreed to be a part of it. It was a great classroom experience. I really enjoyed myself. The kids were very expressive and it was heartening to say the least.

When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.