“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.” IfsWayMeanChildrenReadingTaughtEvidenceBotherPropagandaDullBoresPreyImplicationsAssertionTedious Author:Joan Aiken
“You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenLooksMayTwoWould BeTogetherThreeLeftLonelyThirdsTinyOddRanStationsQuarrelsRailwayLonely Places Author:Joan Aiken
