Paulo Freire Quotes

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

I try to read as much as I can.

I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

I love reading, I'm such a bookworm.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

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.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.