I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
What we have learned from others becomes our own reflection.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
You can find your identity in the damage that's been done to you. You find your identity in your wounds, in your scars, in the places where you've been beat up and you turn them into a medal. We all wear the things we've survived with some honor, but the real honor is in also transcending them.
A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant, but also make pleasant things more pleasant.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape;...it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.