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“Writing is one of the best gifts, in my opinion. To possess the potential to touch the lives of strangers around the world is not only amazing, it's miraculous.”

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“I question the ethics of a teacher education curriculum predicated on learning on the job. It’s an important job. It’s an important time in the child’s development. The fact that a substantial proportion of fourth graders have already fallen behind, as indicated by the NAEP and other assessments, may be related to the fact that many of them will have had K–3 teachers who were learning on the job.”

Reading Curriculum Education Reform

Book:Language at the Speed of Sight

Source: Language at the Speed of Sight

“Reading was escapism, a way to travel and teleport into an alternative life and universe, because sometimes our current reality wasn’t something we always wanted to face. Books had carried me through the worst parts of my life, and some of the best.”

Reading Books Escapism

Author:Maya Morrison, She Wolf

“Eu deveria saber amar tanto que aceitasse a ausência. Se eu fosse maduro, se não fosse néscio, como me acusaram, eu deveria amar sem morrer perante a ausência.”

Quotes Valter Hugo Mae Books Quotess

Book:Deus na escuridão

Source: Deus na escuridão

“Given that the written code didn’t inherit the limits of spoken language, did it expand our linguistic capacities? Absolutely. The medium allows writers to create texts that are far more complex than speakers can produce. It’s the difference between oral storytelling in preliterate cultures and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.”

Reading

Book:Language at the Speed of Sight

Source: Language at the Speed of Sight

“For he never read without taking extracts, and used to say that there never was a book so bad that it was not good in some passage or another.”

Reading

Book:[Epistolae Plinii ad Trajanum imperatorem hujusque ad illum responsa]: inest Historia critica Epistolarum Plinii et Trajani usque ad a. 1552 scripsit J.O. Orellius. 1838 [Leather Bound]

Source: [Epistolae Plinii ad Trajanum imperatorem hujusque ad illum responsa]: inest Historia critica Epistolarum Plinii et Trajani usque ad a. 1552 scripsit J.O. Orellius. 1838 [Leather Bound]

“All the books didn't disappear from the world because your young self decided to abandon them. They are still waiting for you.”

Reading Books Encouragement The Bridge Kingdom Keris Veliant The Inadequate Heir

Book:The Inadequate Heir

Source: The Inadequate Heir

“Indeed, as some historians observe, the changing relationships of readers to text over time can be seen as one index of the history of thought.”

Reading History Of Thought Intellectual History History Of Ideas

Book:Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Reading is a hobby, but for some of us, it's an escape from the difficulties we face.”

Reading Books Book Quotes Colleen Hoover Ledger Kenna Reminders Of Him

Book:Reminders of Him

Source: Reminders of Him