- “Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don’t need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.”
— Steven Pinker - A house without books is like a room without windows.
— Heinrich Mann -
“Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”
— Marilyn Jager Adams - “There is no better tool than a book. It can pry open the locks of poverty and hopelessness and make way for dreams that take hold.”
— Marian Wright Edelman, Founder & President, The Children’s Defense Fund - “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
— Emilie Buchwald - “Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.”
— Gabriela Mistral - “Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don’t need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.”
— Steven Pinker
Quotes on Reading