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Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools. -- Malorie Blackman
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. -- Beverly Cleary
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. -- Patricia Polacco
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. -- Suzanne Fields
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. -- Mitch Leigh
When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't. -- Eoin Colfer
Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.' -- Ray Bradbury
In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there. -- Freddie Prinze
Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything. -- John Kricfalusi
One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. -- Evanna Lynch
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost. -- Christie Laing
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life. -- George Andrew Olah
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. -- Dave Eggers
I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me. But I was still interested in what he had to say. -- Seth Shostak
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. -- Eric Allin Cornell
I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back to the 'romance' of my high-school days. I really liked the space I was in when I was reading it. -- Lupe Fiasco
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. -- Patrick Marber
When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad. -- Fantasia Barrino
The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points. -- Maggie Gallagher
I like reading. I just hate school. -- Armie Hammer
Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading -- Stephen D. Krashen
Access to a school library results in more reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading. -- Linda Ronstadt
What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading? -- Kelly Gallagher
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. -- Doris Lessing
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class -- Francine Prose
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. -- Mark McCormack
I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school. -- Tom Clancy
Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour. -- Clive James
The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter. -- Dave Eggers
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject. -- Barbara Bush
Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. -- Michael Morpurgo
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. -- Lynda Barry
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old. -- Joan Collins
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. -- Chelsea Cain
One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that. -- Charles Clarke
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. -- Nick Cave
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for? -- John Irving
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. -- Bunker Roy
Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He died from hi-fiveing. -- Zach Galifianakis
The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff. -- Parker Young
Teachers, parents and school administrators: Today's teachers can create a Planet of Peace. The communication process you will learn by reading Nonviolent Communication is the cornerstone. -- Robert Muller
I found that the breakthroughs for me, as I went through school, came through sexuality, explorations of consciousness, reading, loving, friends, time in nature, and through psychedelic experiences. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country. -- Ross Gelbspan

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