Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in their lives in general. Their imaginations will be stimulated. I thank heavens for the father that gave me that to begin with.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.

I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

You can learn at any age, but when you are young, you are like a sponge, and when you are introduced to more different types of things before the age of seven and eight, then you get fascinated by that.

I like my mind being stimulated. I like discovering new concepts.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.