Harper Lee Quotes

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

I cannot remember not being able to read.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

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.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

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

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.

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

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

I'm a very slow reader.

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.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

I'm a slow reader.

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

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

I'm not well read.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.