Learning To Read Quotes

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

Reading for pleasure isn’t separate from learning to read.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.

Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.

Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have forgotten, most of our early learning came not from being explicitly taught but from experiencing. Kids aren't born knowing hard and soft, sweet and sour, red and green. When the child experiences those things, s/he transforms them into psychological understandings. When kids play with other kids, they learn about others and about themselves. Learning the basics of our physical and social reality is what early childhood is all about.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

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

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two years after that, and even Sunny, who had just passed out of babyhood, was not born yesterday. Neither were you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

Neither were you [born yesterday], unless of course I am wrong, in which case welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to read so early in life.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

No one can take it away from you.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.