Reading is an extremely important skill in life, and is the foundation of Education.
I'd like to share with you some wise famous words that I find inspiring!
I love quotes and use them in my classroom throughout the school year.
"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
~ Edith Ann, [Lily Tomlin] ~
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."
~ Chinese Proverb ~
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
~ Malcolm Forbes ~
"A library is a hospital for the mind"
~ Anonymous ~
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life"
~ Mortimer J. Adler ~
"Books are not made for furniture,
but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house"
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
"Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future"
~ Jim Bishop ~
"There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them"
~ Joseph Brodsky ~
"I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books;
they are missing a chance to lead an extra life"
~ Scott Corbett ~
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader"
~ W. Fusselman ~