Educational Quotes

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- B. F. Skinner

• We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

-John Kieran

• I am part of everything that I read.

- Emerson

• ‘Tis the reader that makes the good book

- Anais Nin

• We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.

- Rosenblatt

• All student’s knowledge about literary history, about authors and periods and literary types, will be so much less useless baggage if he has not been led primarily to seek in literature a vital personal experience.

- Janet Emig

• If students are truly to learn to read and write, they must witness literacy making a difference, first in themselves, to others.

-Diane Schoemperlen

• Every child, and the child in every one of us, is ready to plead: Tell me a story. For the role of stories is to explain life, and the good stories, in their very substance and in the structure of their language, become revelation.

- Muriel Rukeyser

• The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

- E.E. Cummings

• The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else.

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• Inside every fat book is a thin book trying to get out.

- Naquria Mahfear

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Gilbert Highet

• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

-Dr. Seuss

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

-Bert Williams

• Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

-Marcel Proust

• The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Scott Corbett

• I often feel sorry for people who don’t read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

- Eudora Welty

• Reader and writer, we wish each other well. Don’t we want and don’t we understand the same thing? A story of beauty and passion, some fresh approximation of human truth?

- James Russell Lowell

• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

- Dr. Samuel Johnson

• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

- Virginia Woolf

• Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find out own way for ourselves.

- Thomas Carlyle

• All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been—it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

- Edmund Burke

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Ray Bradbury

• You don’t have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

- Maya Angelou

• 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.