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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. -- Patty Murray
I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read. -- Janis Ian
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. -- Mark E. Smith
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel. -- Vonda N. McIntyre
When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years. -- Michael J. Schmoker
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. -- Eudora Welty
What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today. -- Astrid Lindgren
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion. -- John Dewey
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. -- Marilyn Jager Adams
My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody. -- Isabella Rossellini
Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them. -- Reginald Aldworth Daly
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child. -- John Steinbeck
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read. -- Hannah More
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write. -- William Labov
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. -- Nelson Goodman
If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill. -- David Elkind
Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house. -- Alonso Duralde
My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds... -- Andre-Marie Ampere
My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me. -- Ana Tijoux
Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words. -- Lilian Katz
One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind. -- Yishan Wong
Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read. -- Pam Allyn
In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school. -- Alice Mattison
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. -- Alberto Manguel
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. -- Rebecca West
There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening. -- Linda Leaming
Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.' -- Jack McDevitt
Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice. -- Bill Cosby
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. -- Ray Charles
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. -- Adam Hamilton
Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed! -- Joyce Meyer
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time. -- Hayley Williams
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. -- William Hazlitt
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way. -- Paul Lynde
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. -- John Steinbeck
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain. -- Joshua Roman
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. -- Dixie Carter
I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with. -- James D. Watson
I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. -- Lauren Tarshis
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way. -- Michael Buble
Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read. -- Mariska Hargitay
Learning to read music in Braille & play by ear helped me develop a [very] good memory. -- Ray Charles
No matter how much you know, how well read you are, how traveled or cultured, you should never stop learning. -- Stacy Keibler
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. -- William Godwin
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. -- Rumi
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work. -- William Eggleston
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places. -- Marc Almond
Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research. -- Donald Clark
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing. -- Jim Rohn
[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms. -- Marva Collins
There was a wall against learning. A man wanted his children to read, to figure, and that was enough. More might make them dissatisfied and flighty. -- John Steinbeck
I did not read from a sense of superiority, or advancement, or even learning. I read because I loved it more than any other activity on earth. -- Anna Quindlen
I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part. -- Garth Brooks
Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously. -- Mark Pesce

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