“since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.” WayShouldChildrenBookIdeasCoursesChildhoodSixHundredInsightNew IdeasVocabulary Author:Joan Aiken
“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
“Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.” WorldWayWantImagineProgress Author:Joan Aiken
