Florence King Quotes

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

We must bring it to pass ... if we have the peace that all the youth now in England, born of free men who have the means that they can apply to it, may be devoted to learning ... until such time as they can read well what is written in England.

When you're worrying about crime rates, go help teach kids to read at a young age so that their chances for climbing out of poverty and achieving success in school and life go up.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

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

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

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