Mem Fox Quotes

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

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

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

Having a larger vocabulary the day you walk into kindergarten is advantageous.

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

Reading is more important than writing.

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite.

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

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.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

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

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.