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Dehaene even allows himself a few moments of (justifiable) annoyance at the way that "childhood reading experts" continue their debates about the best strategies for teaching reading to children in complete ignorance of a large and growing body of work on how the human brain processes written language." -- Alan Jacobs
Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching. -- Christina Baker Kline
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. -- Claire Coffee
As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately. -- Chang-Rae Lee
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.' -- Jack McDevitt
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts. -- Jack Prelutsky
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. Come dream with me. -- Sharon Draper
Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it. -- Mary Karr
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition. -- A. R. Ammons
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. -- Anthony Doerr
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read. -- Michael Cadnum
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group. -- Adam Hamilton
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. -- Wynton Marsalis
I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader. -- Kelly Gallagher
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other. -- Carlos Fuentes
Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else. -- Marva Collins
My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet. -- Seamus Heaney
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking! -- John Green
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading. -- Holbrook Jackson
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. -- Helen Keller
I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers. -- Frederick Busch
The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. -- Graham Greene
I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer. -- Sharon M. Draper
I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me? -- Juliana Spahr
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. -- Swami Vivekananda

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