Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.

If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless.

If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

I'm a lousy reader.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.