Quotes About Education

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

I just have never got into reading.

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

I love the fact that 'Flowers for Algernon' is doing its part to get people reading.

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.

Overall, people are reading less.

I don't like to read fiction. I like to learn something when I'm reading.

I found reading musical notation frightfully boring.

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.

The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I stared at her like, 'What kind of an alien creature are you?!' Because it was so incomprehensible to me that someone could dislike reading! That really started my desire to help other children love reading and writing.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.

I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in life, whatever it is you do.

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.