Irina Bokova Quotes

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

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

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.

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

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

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in her life, may she rest in peace. Because that deed saved my life, if not sooner, then later, when sometimes the only thing I had to hold on to was knowing I could read.

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.

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.

Kids are our future.

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

I'm not well read.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

My mother taught me to read.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Kids may only be 25 percent of our population but they are 100 percent of our future.

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.

The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

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