Richard Ford Quotes

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I'm trying to learn how to read. I have a tutor out on the road. It is great.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

My mother taught me how to write.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.

My mother taught me to read.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Up until 3rd grade you are learning to read. After 3rd grade, you are reading to learn. if you aren’t … reading proficiently at the end of the 3rd grade, you are going to struggle throughout the rest of your school years.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.