"It is hard to learn when we think we know something."
Peter Block
"Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs."
Daniel Pink
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
Mark Twain
"The typical teacher has children doing a lot of "stuff." How is what I am having children do creating readers and writers?"
Regie Routman
"Learning from a teacher who has stopped learning is like drinking water from a stagnant pond."
Indonesian Proverb
“Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer … when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.”
Frank Smith, Reading FAQ
“Reading and writing don’t inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can’t learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.”
Frank Smith, Reading FAQ
"With a roomful of authors to help us teach, teaching writing doesn’t have to be so lonely."
Katie Wood Ray, Wondrous Words
"A writer’s notebook is like ‘driving on the highway versus taking the scenic route.’”
From Joanne Hindley, In the Company of Children
“Although bike riders must use all rules of physics when they lean into their curves, being well versed in the laws of physics doesn’t make people into more competent bike riders.”
James Moffet
“Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don’t write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.”
Lucy Calkins, The Art of Teaching Writing
"Nobody rises to low expectations."
Author Unknown
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightening."
Mark Twain
"Education is littered with the remains of educational trends lost in translation."
Jan Miller Burkins and Melody M. Croft, Preventing Misguided Reading
"The better you know something, the more risk there is of behaving egocentrically in relation to your knowledge. Thus, the greater the gap between teacher and learner, the harder teaching becomes."
Margaret Donaldson, Children’s Minds
"The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth"
John Dewey
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire"
William Butler Yeats
"Limited expectations yield only limited results"
Susan Laurson Willig
"True education is to learn how to think, not what to think."
Krishnamurti
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
"I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp."
JK Rowling
"You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail."
JK Rowling
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
Kate DiCamillo
The true university these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
If we encounter a man of great intellect, we should as him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
