#reading

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading. ↗

— John Adams

#education #reading #education

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#britain #detectives #education #humor #irrelevance

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#comprehension #education #fiction #learning #nonfiction

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#education

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ↗

— Robert Maynard Hutchins

#education #reading #education

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs. ↗

— Kelly Gallagher

#education

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#letters #reading #education

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. ↗

— Tommy Lee

#education #jail #motley-crue #reading #tommy-lee

Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia ↗

— María Elena Walsh

#education #reading #education

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

— Mike Schmoker

#efficiency #learn #learning #read #reading