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What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

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Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who don't read much cannot get better at it.

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We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.

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Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Jim Trelease

Jim Trelease

Born: March 23, 1941
Died: July 28, 2022 (aged 81)
Bio: Jim Trelease, also known as James Joseph Trelease, was an educator and author who stressed reading aloud to children as a way to instill in them the love of literature.

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