Barack Obama Quotes

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.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

Kids who read are bright.

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them.

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

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

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.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.