Quotes to Consider
“We do not advocate for a particular approach to teaching reading: instead, we center children, arguing that HOW you teach reading MUST be determined by WHO you are teaching. Anything else is flawed.”
(Compton-Lilly)
”Education can’t save us. We have to save education”
(Love, 2019)
“Children must be taught how to look, what to look at, and what to look for. The most difficult-to-teach children have great difficulty acquiring visual and auditory perception skills.”
(C. Lyons)
“Competent readers take words apart in many different way to solve new words. That is the outcome we must aim for.”
(M. Clay)
“Working towards change almost always means that we must abandon ways of doing things and thinking things that are not working. One cannot change outcomes for a student, a classroom, a school, or a district without channging one’s own behavior and thinking.”
(Minor, 2019)
“I live in a perpetual state of inquiry, finding new questions to ask, then moving on. I do not have ‘a position’ or a safe haven where what is ‘right’ exists. Pragmatism precludes idealism. I search for questions which need answers. What exists in the real world? And how well do our theories explain what exists?
(M. Clay)
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively sand to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
(Albert Einstein)
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
(Walt Disney)
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
(Frederick Douglas)
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
(Maya Angelou)
“Reading is like breathing in, and writing is like breathing out.” (Pam Allyn)
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”(Jorge Luis Borges)
“Never give up on a child who is struggling to read. With the right help, they can overcome any obstacle.”
(Dr. Timothy Shanahan)
“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”(Malala Yousafzei)
“If you want to write, you should pay attention to people — everybody has a story — and listen to people when they talk.“
(Kate DiCamillo)
“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)
