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Tag: books, education, reading

Lailah Gifty Akita

A delight to read is a great treasure.

books, education, reading

A castle of defense, a bastion of mightA fort where the wise teach the young to fightAn armory of weapons, sharp as hooksAre wrapped in leather and shelved as books

books, education, reading

Lailah Gifty Akita

The love to know is the passion for reading.

books, education, reading

If you know how to read, the World of Books is open to you, after all; and if you like to read, you’ll read. If you don’t, you’ll forget whatever anybody makes you read, anyway.

books, education, reading

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

books, education, reading

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home–Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?

books, education, reading

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

books, education, reading

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

books, education, reading

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

books, education, reading

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

books, education, reading

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home–Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?

books, education, reading

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

books, education, reading