Leo Buscaglia Quotes

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

I hadn't been a particularly precocious reader, but everybody else in my family was.

My family gave me the best in education.

Education depends on 5 factors: The attendance at school, the time spent watching television at home, the time of reading at home, the amount of reading material in home, and the number of parents in home.

It is … interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.

I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

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.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

My father superintended the English part of my education, and to his care I am indebted for anything valuable which I may have acquired in my youth. He was my only intelligent companion, and was both a watchful parent and an affectionate friend.