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100 Education Quotes That Will Inspire You To Keep Growing

By Maxime Lagacé

Maxime is the founder of WisdomQuotes. He has been collecting quotes since 2004. His goal? To help you develop a calm and peaceful mind. Learn more about him on his about page .

Education is vital.

You without education:

• More likely to become poor
• More likely to have diseases
• More likely to commit crimes

You with education:

• More likely to be happy
• More likely to make more money
• More likely to live longer

So, what’s the key to a better future?

Inspired by this, I have compiled 100 of the best education quotes I could find.

To inspire you and make you realize the value of proper education.

You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Budha, Lao Tzu, and more.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. Bruce Lee

A dull mind gets bored easily. A curious mind expands forever. Maxime Lagacé

Play is the highest form of research. Albert Einstein ( This source says it’s probably not from Einstein)

A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet and leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system. Naval Ravikant

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. Margaret Mead

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. Bob Talber

Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are. Jim Henson

A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero

The person who asks questions is more helpful than the person who offers advice. James Clear

The highest result of education is tolerance. Helen Keller

Only the autodidacts are free. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

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The Best Education Quotes

The more you make it easy for your kids, the more you remove the struggle necessary for learning. Maxime Lagacé

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. United Negro College Fund

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. Chinese proverb

The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt

Lasting novels don’t come from literature departments. Successful businesses don’t come from business schools. Scientific revolutions don’t come from research universities. Get your education, then get moving. Find the loners tinkering at the edge . Naval Ravikant

Podcasts are free. Twitter is free. Wikipedia is free. YouTube is free. We are living in a golden age of self-education. Brian Feroldi ( Source )

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. John Dewey

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Cicero

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Naval Ravikant

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

Education begins the gentleman, but reading , good company and reflection must finish him. John Locke

Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. Jim Rohn

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see. Alexandra K. Trenfor

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t. Bill Nye (upworthy.com)

Part 2. Education Quotes That Are…

The most famous education quotes.

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant. Victor Hugo

I am still learning. Michelangelo

Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Albert Einstein

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. Oscar Wilde

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. James Dewar

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. King

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

My education was interrupted only by my schooling. Winston Churchill

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Short Education Quotes

Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France

Responsibility educates. Wendell Phillips

A sign of good education: students don’t feel entitled. Maxime Lagacé

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Andy McIntyre

The world exists for the education of each man. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even a fool learns something once it hits him. Homer

Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus

Success is a poor teacher. Robert Kiyosaki

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes

There is no education like adversity. Benjamin Disraeli

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. Chinese proverb

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou

Inspirational Education Quotes

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. Nora Roberts

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

When anything can be learned online, the barrier to education is simply motivation, curiosity, and persistence. Anthony Pompliano ( Source )

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness . It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all. It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth. No grades, no tests, no diplomas – just learning. Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow. Naval Ravikant (Naval referred to the Internet and social medias like Twitter and LinkedIn)

Education is supposed to juice your curiosity, not diminish or sate it. Walter Isaacson

Every person with a smartphone and a pair of headphones has access to the kind of education that was once reserved for the sons of aristocracy. The Stoic Emperor

Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be. Rita Pierson

They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace. Malala Yousafzai

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. Aristotle

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. Jean Piaget

Funny And Surprising Education Sayings

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day. Jay Mohr

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. Franklin P. Jones

Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don’t have the top for. Jerry Seinfeld

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime. Red Skelton

The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school. Milton Berle 😂

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. Mark Twain

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble. Mark Twain

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students. Robin Williams

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education Proverbs For Value-Packed Wisdom

When the student is ready, the master appears. Buddhist proverb

If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly. Buddhist proverb

Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen proverb

A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese proverb

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. Chinese proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese proverb

Wise men may not be learned; learned men may not be wise. Chinese proverb

A stumble may prevent a fall. English proverb

Despise school and remain a fool. German proverb

All things good to know are difficult to learn. Greek proverb

An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. Japanese proverb

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. Japanese proverb

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. Latin proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt

Key Takeaways

• Want a great education? Never get bored asking questions.
• Want a great way to learn? Play! Don’t be so serious.
• Want to go far in life? Be an autodidact. You can learn anything on the Internet.
• Remember: answers are good, but questions are better.
• To know is good. To know what’s worth knowing is better.

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What’s your favorite education quote? And remember: words can transform your life, if you find the right ones.

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Part 2 Education Quotes That ARE Famous Short Inspirational Funny Proverbs

Part 3 Conclusion

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106 Inspirational Education Quotes for Students & Teachers

These inspiring educational quotes will show students, teachers and parents the power of learning. Wether you’re looking to motivate kids or young adults in the classroom, or other teachers and colleagues, this is the wisdom they need to thrive and be their very best version of themselves.

Also make sure to see these inspirational quotes for kids (if you’re looking to inspire and motivate the next generation).

Education Quotes

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

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“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley

“Education without application is just entertainment.” – Tim Sanders

“Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” – Mark Twain

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“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

“Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.” – Francis Bacon

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” – Chanakya

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” – Elizabeth Warren

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” – Ray LeBlond

“School exams are memory tests, in the real world no one is going to stop you from referring to a book to solve a problem.” – Amit Kalantri

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” – Stephen Hawking

“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” – Chinese Proverb

“The road to freedom –here and everywhere on earth-– begins in the classroom.” – Hubert Humphrey

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker

“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” – Mary McLeod Bethune

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.” – C. S. Lewis

“Education is a once in a lifetime opportunity to open children’s hearts and minds to the unbelievable wonder of the universe.” – Sir Anthony Seldon

“Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.” – John Dewey

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.” – Denis Waitley

“The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.” – Lindsay Kolowich

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.” – Eric Fromm

“Education is the great engine to personal development.” – Nelson Mandela

“Education is one thing no one can take away from you.” – Elin Nordegren

“All of life is a constant education.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.” – Brigham Young

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” – Auguste Rodin

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” – William Burroughs

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb

“You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” – Julia Child

“Education should not be reading about the past rather it should be about addressing the present.” – Rajesh Walecha

“Take what you learn and make a difference with it.” – Tony Robbins

“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” – Horace Mann

“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.” – Confucius

“Life is an open book test. Learning how to learn is your most valuable skill in the online world.” – Marc Cuban

“Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.” – Anatole France

“Intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.” – Daniel Keyes

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.” – George Evans

“We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” – Michelle Obama

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Andy McIntyre

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein

“The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.” – John Dewey

“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

“When you study great teachers… you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.” – William Glasser

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it is in the home, school, or any place.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.” – Victor Hugo

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” – Gloria Steinem

“School is the path, not the point.” – Will Richardson

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” – Lily Tomlin

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker

“Education is the transmission of civilization.” – Will Durant

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” – Dana Stewart Scott

“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities.” – Nelson Mandela

“All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.” – David Hawkins

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” – Robert Frost

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynman

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” – John Holt

“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.” – Robin Williams

“Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.” – W.B. Yeats

“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” – Brad Sherman

“We all know that education, more than anything else, improves your chances of building better lives.” – Nelson Mandela

“I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.” – Ann Brashares

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

“The learning process continues until the day you die.” – Kirk Douglas

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B.King

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“Education is everything- education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.” – Ciara

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.” – Gustave Flaubert

“No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.” – Nelson Mandela

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin Fisher

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” – William Arthur Ward

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

“All things good to know are difficult to learn.” – Greek proverb

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson

“Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” – Bill Beattie

“To delight in literature is to desire to learn.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller

“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers

“The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.” – George Santayana

“Let’s recommit to work towards our common goal: a nation where all of us are winners, all of us have shelter, food, and education.” – Nelson Mandela

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.” – Nelson Mandela

“I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.” – Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

“A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” – Will Rogers

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vince Lombardi

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160 Quotes About Books & Reading

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Many of us have special memories of the books that have inspired us, and have learned the profound effect that reading the right book can have at the right moment. If you’re short on time, reading some quotes about books is the next best thing.

Books have the power to transport us to new worlds and different times , but they can also take us back to the important moments in our own lives.

From building your vocabulary to reducing stress, preventing age-related cognitive decline and increasing your ability to empathize, reading books is an easy way to look after your mind and body.

Whether you’re an avid reader or wish you read more, we hope you enjoy these quotes about books and reading!

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Quotes About Books

′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read. Mark Twain

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better. George R.R. Martin

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. Charles W. Eliot

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Novel

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. J.K. Rowling

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. Carl Sagan

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. Erasmus

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. Dr. Seuss

That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. Jhumpa Lahiri

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie

I love the smell of book ink in the morning. Umberto Eco

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. Bill Patterson

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. Neil Gaiman

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. E.B. White

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. Walt Disney

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. William Styron

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. Kurt Vonnegut

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Groucho Marx

I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas. I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud. Nnedi Okorafor

Books were my pass to personal freedom. Oprah Winfrey

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. David Mitchell

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. Francois Mauriac

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. C.S. Lewis

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. Austin Phelps

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell, 1984

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. C.S. Lewis

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. Diane Duane

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. Anne Lamott

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. Mortimer J. Adler

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher

I guess there are never enough books. John Steinbeck

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. Anne Herbert

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. Ursula K. LeGuin

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Terry Pratchett

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it. Toni Morrison

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! Thomas Babington Macaulay

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. David Quammen

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. Paul Sweeney

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books. Gary Paulsen

Happiness. That’s what books smells like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a book shop. What better life than to trade in happiness? Saran MacLean

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree? Christopher Paolini

Quotes About Reading

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. Annie Proulx

Reading brings us unknown friends. Honore de Belzac

My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. Jean Rhys

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. Malorie Blackman

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind. Anna Quindlen

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. Napoleon Bonaparte

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. Henry David Thoreau

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read. Jorge Luis Borges

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Mary Wortley Montagu

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. Abraham Lincoln

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. Rene Descartes

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. James Baldwin

Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. William Styron

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Ursula K. LeGuin

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Reading is an act of civilization; it’s one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. Ben Okri

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. Kate DiCamillo

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. Roald Dahl

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them. George Saunders

Reading—even browsing—an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. James Gleick

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work. Khaled Hosseini

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time. Virginia Woolf

Reading means borrowing. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds. Roxane Gay

Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. R.L. Stine

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. Rainer Maria Rilke

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours. Alan Bennett, The History Boys

It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. John Waters

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Sir Francis Bacon

The world was hers for the reading. Betty Smith

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Stephen King

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Robert Frost

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. Paul Auster

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. Walter Mosley

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. Joyce Carol Oates

A word after a word after a word is power. Margaret Atwood

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. Steven Spielberg

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. Annie Dillard

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window. William Faulkner

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. Louis L’Amour

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. Christian Bauman

Reading is departure and arrival. Terri Guillemets

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” President Harry Truman

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real. Nora Ephron

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P.J. O’Rourke

Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. Lena Dunham

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t. Mark Twain

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies

Leaders are always readers. Kevin Trudeau

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The Best Literary Quotes

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. Holbrook Jackson

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. Ezra Pound

I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. H.P. Lovecraft

Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. A.S. Byatt, Possession

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories. Michael Ende

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away. Emily Dickinson

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde

In the end, we’ll all become stories. Margaret Atwood

Reading is my favorite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. Anne Brontë

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. Gustave Flaubert

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone. Roald Dahl, Matilda

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. Cassandra Clare

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though. J.D. Salinger

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one. George R.R. Martin

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Robert Louis Stevenson

Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. C.S. Lewis

Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar. Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own. John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief. Franz Kafka

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My favorite quote is “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”– Erasmus

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80 Inspiring Quotes About Books and Reading

Books are important for the mind, heart, and soul. But don't take it from us: These quotes about reading speak for themselves.

By Stefanie Hargreaves

The power to be found between the pages of a book is formidable, indeed. And these 80 inspiring quotes about books and importance of reading are here to remind you of that. From beloved bestsellers to iconic celebrities, these quotes exemplify the benefits of reading and of a good books to comfort, challenge, and inspire you. For, as author Anna Quindlen says, "Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller

"A word after a word after a word is power." – Margaret Atwood

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." – Carl Sagan

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." – Charles Baudelaire

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young." – Maya Angelou

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift." – Kate DiCamillo

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them." – Emma Thompson

"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." – John Waters

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you." – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz

"Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." – Lena Dunham

"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book." – J.K. Rowling

"I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book." – Benedict Cumberbatch

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: They feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship." – Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." – Joan Didion, The White Album

"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." – Jeanette Winterson

"A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit." – David Sedaris

"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time." – Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis

"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul." – Ursula K. Le Guin

"It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in." – Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven

"Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading." – Susan Sontag

"Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you." – Haruki Murakami

"A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth." – Andre Dubus, Meditations from a Movable Chair

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." – Frederick Douglass

"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Books save lives." – Laurie Anderson

"Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps." – Ann Patchett

"Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination." – Eudora Welty

A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Cicero

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." – Rene Descartes

"That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet." – Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

"I love the way that each book — any book — is its own journey. You open it, and off you go…" – Sharon Creech

"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while." – Malorie Blackman

"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them." – George Saunders

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." – William Styron

"I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves." – David Foster Wallace

"Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real." – Nora Ephron

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." – Jean Rhys

"Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds." – Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." – James Baldwin

"Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you." – Barack Obama

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever." – Philip Pullman

"Books may well be the only true magic." – Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

"Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know." – Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books

"A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on, you are enriched threefold." – Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

"Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work." – Khaled Hosseini

"It is known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else." – Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads." – François Mauriac

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." – W. Somerset Maugham, Books And You

"I don't read a book; I hold a conversation with the author." – Elbert Hubbard

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again." – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one." – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly." – Sir Francis Bacon

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." – Joyce Carol Oates

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." – Madeleine L'Engle

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this." – Dave Eggers

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells... and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like pressed flower... both strange and familiar." – Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." – George Orwell, 1984

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self." – Franz Kafka

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head." – Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled 'This could change your life.'" – Helen Exley

"There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things." – Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book." – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something–a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things–which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours." – Alan Bennett, The History Boys

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise about the ordinary." – Jim Rohn

"The story is truly finished–and meaning is made–not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters." – Celeste Ng

"One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us." – Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

"A book is a gift you can open again and again." – Garrison Kellor

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." – Charles W. Eliot

"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?" – Christopher Paolini

"Once you've read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you." – Louis L'Amour

"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us." – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive–all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment." – Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

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105 Inspiring Book Quotes To Share With Your Students

Find one that speaks to you. 

It may be controversial to say, especially as an English teacher, but I write in my books. I’ve had students gasp at this comment, but it’s the way I read. I underline parts of the book that I like. I underline if I like the way the words sound, or as a silent “Yes!” or as a way to commit those literary quotes to my memory. This may all be a bit meta. Quoting author John Green, ”Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” If you’re also inspired by the words of others, read on to find some quotes from books that speak to you.

Quotes From Books for Children

1. “i know you’ll be kind … and clever … and bold. and the bigger your heart, the more it will hold. when nights are black and when days are gray—you’ll be brave and be bright so no shadows can stay. and become anybody that you’d like to be. and then i’ll look at you and you’ll look at me and i’ll love you, whoever you’ve grown up to be.” — the wonderful things you will be by emily winfield martin.

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2. “UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — The Lorax by Dr. Seuss

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3. “‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.’” — The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

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4. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go. …” — Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss

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5. “Remember, what is given from the heart reaches the heart.” — What Is Given From the Heart by Patricia C. McKissack

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6. “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’” — Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

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7. “‘He’s the strongest man in the world.’ ‘Man, yes,’ said Pippi, ‘but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.’” — Pippi Longstocking , by Astrid Lindgren

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8. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.” — The Twits by Roald Dahl

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9. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” — Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

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10. “We all can dance when we find music that we love.” — Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees

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11. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”— Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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12. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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13. “People who love each other are always connected by a very special string made of love. Even though you can’t see it with your eyes, you can feel it with your heart and know that you are always connected to everyone you love.” — The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

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14. “Setting out on an adventure is thrilling, but coming home is even better.” — Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

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15. “But then I realized, what do they really know? This is MY idea, I thought. No one knows it like I do. And it’s okay if it’s different and weird, and maybe a little crazy.” — What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada

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16. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Disney’s Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin by A.A. Milne

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17. “A little drop of paint lets your imagination run wild. A smudge and a smear can make magic appear.” — Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg

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18. “Find your own way, you don’t have to follow the crowd. There’s only one you in this great big world.” — Only One You by Linda Kranz

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19. “So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” — The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

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20. “You can’t expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.” — Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

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21. “There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.” — James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

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22. “It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.” — The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) by J.M. Barrie

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23. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures, and have courage when things go wrong.” — Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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24. “How much good inside a day? Depends on how good you live ’em. How much love is inside a friend? Depends on how much you give ’em.” — A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

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25. “Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it … yet.” — Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

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26. “I guess you can’t fight nature. We are what we are.” — I Don’t Want To Be a Frog by Dev Petty

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27. “I love you right up to the moon and back.” — Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

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28. “Inside all of us is Hope. Inside all of us is Fear. Inside all of us is Adventure. Inside all of us is … A Wild Thing.” — Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

29. “Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better.” — Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

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30. “Not trying is much worse than failing.” — A World Without Failures by Esther Pia Cordova

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31. “You never really know how far a smile can go. When one comes your way, it may have traveled thousands of miles and cheered millions of people before it reached you.” — The Smile That Went Around the World by Patrice Karst

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32. “I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.” — A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

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33. “Normal is whatever you are.” — Leo the Lop by Stephen Cosgrove

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34. “Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” — The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

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35. “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times when one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

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36. “Never hurry and never worry!” — Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

37. “You’re great no matter what! You are worthwhile simply because you’re alive. Never forget this, and you’re sure to thrive.” — Unstoppable Me! by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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38. “Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it’s the warrior who wields it.” — Redwall by Brian Jacques

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39. “The teacher taught me the word in school. I wrote it in my book. B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. Beautiful! I think it means something that when you have it, your heart is happy.” — Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth

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40. “Daddy tells me it is beautiful. That makes me proud. I love that my hair lets me be me!” — Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

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41. “People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?” — Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

42. “Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.” — James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

43. “Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” — The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie

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44. “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”— Alice’s Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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45. “‘You have plenty of courage, I am sure,’ answered Oz. ‘All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.’” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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46. “Thank you for the sun above, thank you for my friends I love, thank you for the earth and air, thank you for the food to share.” — An Awesome Book of Thanks by Dallas Clayton

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47. “Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.” — Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

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48. “Finally the Rainbow Fish has only one shining scale left. His most prized possessions had been given away, yet he was very happy.” — The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

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49. “On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, ‘Life will never be the same.’” — On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman

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50. “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

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51. “Frog said, ‘I wrote “Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.”’ ‘Oh,’ said Toad, ‘that makes a very good letter.’ Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.” — Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

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52. “It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.” — Matilda by Roald Dahl

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53. “When Harry thought about Winnie and the voyage across the ocean, his head said, ‘I shouldn’t.’ His head said, ‘I can’t.’ But his heart made up his mind.” — Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick

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54. “Out there, under the stars, I really tried to focus on myself and what I needed. I took walks, I read books, I floated in the river, I wrote in my journal and found simple moments to be quiet.” — The Good Egg by Jory John

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55. “Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child. Listen to the DON’TS. Listen to the SHOULDN’TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S. Listen to the NEVER HAVES. Then listen close to me—Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.” — Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

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Quotes From Books for Young Adults

56. “becoming fearless isn’t the point. that’s impossible. it’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” — divergent by veronica roth.

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57. “That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” — The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

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58. “I try to think about how it all works. At school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to ‘their song.’ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.” — The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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59. “Things were rough all over but it was better that way. That way, you could tell the other guy was human too.” — The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

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60. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” — Looking for Alaska by John Green

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61. “Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” — Night by Elie Wiesel

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62. “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.” — The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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63. “I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.” — The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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64. “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.” — Divergent by Veronica Roth

65. “I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.” — I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

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66. “THE BEST word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words.” — The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

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67. “Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.” — We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

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68. “I wonder what it’s like to have that much power over a boy. I don’t think I’d want it; it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.” — To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

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69. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” — To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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70. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” — To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

71. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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72. “Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.” — The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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73. “The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.” — The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

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74. “You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.” — They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

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75. “I think that maybe forgiveness is like change—it comes in small steps.” — The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

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76. “I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people—to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it’s the effect or vice versa.” — Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

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77. “Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.” — Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

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78. “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.” — This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

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79. “We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither.” — These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly

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80. “The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.” — Eragon by Christopher Paolini

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Classic Literature Quotes

81. “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.” — as you like it by william shakespeare.

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82. “I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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83. “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” — Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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84. “Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.” — Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

85. “It is dreadful that one cannot tear out the past by the roots. We cannot tear it out but we can hide the memory of it.” — Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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86. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

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87. “One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple.” — The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

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88. “All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.” — War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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89. “Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.” — Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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90. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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91. “It’s funny. All one has to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” — The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

92. “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” — A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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93. “You can’t pick out the pieces and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that’s the blessing.” — Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

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94. “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.” — The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

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95. “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” — The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

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96. “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” — Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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97. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” — 1984 by George Orwell

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98. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Literary Quotes From Memoirs

99. “the only way we will survive is by being kind. the only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. no one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.” — yes please by amy poehler.

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100. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions. … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” — Bossypants by Tina Fey

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101. “What’s so wrong with effort, anyway? It means you care.” — Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

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102. “People are their most beautiful when they are laughing, crying, dancing, playing, telling the truth, and being chased in a fun way.” — Yes Please by Amy Poehler

103. “It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.” — Yes Please by Amy Poehler

104. “My life is my message.”— The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

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105. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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A critical take on education and schooling

The 50 great books on education

Professor of Education, University of Derby

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I have often argued that I would not let any teacher into a school unless – as a minimum – they had read, carefully and well, the three great books on education: Plato’s Republic, Rousseau’s Émile and Dewey’s Democracy and Education. There would be no instrumental purpose in this, but the struggle to understand these books and the thinking involved in understanding them would change teachers and ultimately teaching.

These are the three great books because each is sociologically whole. They each present a description and arguments for an education for a particular and better society. You do not have to agree with these authors. Plato’s tripartite education for a just society ruled over by philosopher kings; Rousseau’s education through nature to establish the social contract and Dewey’s relevant, problem-solving democratic education for a democratic society can all be criticised. That is not the point. The point is to understand these great works. They constitute the intellectual background to any informed discussion of education.

What of more modern works? I used to recommend the “blistering indictment” of the flight from traditional liberal education that is Melanie Phillips’s All Must Have Prizes, to be read alongside Tom Bentley’s Learning Beyond the Classroom: Education for a Changing World, which is a defence of a wider view of learning for the “learning age”. These two books defined the debate in the 1990s between traditional education by authoritative teachers and its rejection in favour of a new learning in partnership with students.

Much time and money is spent on teacher training and continuing professional development and much of it is wasted. A cheaper and better way of giving student teachers and in-service teachers an understanding of education would be to get them to read the 50 great works on education.

The books I have identified, with the help of members of the Institute of Ideas’ Education Forum, teachers and colleagues at several universities, constitute an attempt at an education “canon”.

What are “out” of my list are textbooks and guides to classroom practice. What are also “out” are novels and plays. But there are some great literary works that should be read by every teacher: Charles Dicken’s Hard Times – for Gradgrind’s now much-needed celebration of facts; D. H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow – for Ursula Brangwen’s struggle against her early child-centred idealism in the reality of St Philips School; and Alan Bennett’s The History Boys – for Hector’s role as the subversive teacher committed to knowledge.

I hope I have produced a list of books, displayed here in alphabetical order, that are held to be important by today’s teachers. I make no apology for including the book I wrote with Kathryn Ecclestone, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education because it is an influential critical work that has produced considerable controversy. If you disagree with this, or any other of my choices, please add your alternative “canonical” books on education.

Michael W. Apple – Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age (1993)

Hannah Arendt – Between Past and Future (1961), for the essay “The Crisis in Education” (1958)

Matthew Arnold – Culture and Anarchy (1867-9)

Robin Barrow – Giving Teaching Back to the Teachers (1984)

Tom Bentley – Learning Beyond The Classroom: Education for a Changing World (1998)

Allan Bloom – The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987)

Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron – Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1977)

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis – Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life (1976)

Jerome Bruner – The Process of Education (1960)

John Dewey – Democracy and Education (1916)

Margaret Donaldson – Children’s Minds (1978)

JWB Douglas – The Home and the School (1964)

Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes – The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education (2008)

Harold Entwistle – Antonio Gramsci: Conservative Schooling for Radical Politics (1979).

Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968/1970)

Frank Furedi – Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating (2009)

Helene Guldberg – Reclaiming Childhood (2009)

ED Hirsch Jnr. – The Schools We Need And Why We Don’t Have Them (1999)

Paul H Hirst – Knowledge and the Curriculum (1974) For the essay which appears as Chapter 3 ‘Liberal Education and the Nature of Knowledge’ (1965)

John Holt – How Children Fail (1964)

Eric Hoyle – The Role of the Teacher (1969)

James Davison Hunter – The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age without Good or Evil (2000)

Ivan Illich – Deschooling Society (1971)

Nell Keddie (Ed.) – Tinker, Taylor: The Myth of Cultural Deprivation (1973)

John Locke – Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1692)

John Stuart Mill – Autobiography (1873)

Sybil Marshall – An Experiment in Education (1963)

Alexander Sutherland Neil – Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing (1960)

John Henry Newman – The Idea of a University (1873)

Michael Oakeshott – The Voice of Liberal Learning (1989) In particular for the essay “Education: The Engagement and Its Frustration” (1972)

Anthony O’ Hear – Education, Society and Human Nature: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1981)

Richard Stanley Peters – Ethics and Education (1966)

Melanie Phillips – All Must Have Prizes (1996)

Plato – The Republic (366BC?)

Plato – Protagoras (390BC?) and Meno (387BC?)

Neil Postman – The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School (1995)

Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner – Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)

Herbert Read – Education Through Art (1943)

Carl Rogers – Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become (1969)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Émile or “on education” (1762)

Bertrand Russell – On Education (1926)

Israel Scheffler – The Language of Education (1960)

Brian Simon – Does Education Matter? (1985) Particularly for the paper “Why No Pedagogy in England?” (1981)

JW Tibble (Ed.) – The Study of Education (1966)

Lev Vygotsky – Thought and Language (1934/1962)

Alfred North Whitehead – The Aims of Education and other essays (1929)

Paul E. Willis – Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (1977)

Alison Wolf – Does Education Matter? Myths about Education and Economic Growth (2002)

Michael FD Young (Ed) – Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education (1971)

Michael FD Young – Bringing Knowledge Back In: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education (2007)

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30 Most Compelling E-Learning Quotes

These are 30 of the most compelling e-learning quotes from professionals across a wide range of backgrounds.​

• By Erin Wilson
• Mar 20, 2021

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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” Albert Einstein

These are 30 of the most compelling e-learning quotes:

• “Technology is not a silver bullet. It’s only as good as the teachers … using it as one more tool to help inspire, and teach, and work through problems.” — Barack Obama
• “When I wanted to learn something outside of school as a kid, cracking open my World Book encyclopedia was the best I could do. Today, all you have to do is go online.” — Bill Gates
• “If kids can be super engaged in video games, there’s a way for them to be super engaged in education as well.” — Elon Musk
• “There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.” — Anant Agarwal
• “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay.” — Henry Ford
• “Employees will continue to gain more positive attitudes toward their work because of the availability of personalized training.” — Ellis and Kuznia, Corporate eLearning Impact on Employees
• “One of the most important areas we can develop as professionals is competence in accessing and sharing knowledge.” — Connie Malamed
• “If you continue training the same way you’ve always trained, don’t expect to get better results.” — Jim Crapko
• “To unlock the true potential of e-learning to train successful employees, it needs to be people-centered.” — Simon Greany
• “The most difficult limitation to overcome when implementing eLearning is resistance. eLearning will not be successful in a company culture that is opposed to change.” — Ellis and Kuznia, Corporate eLearning Impact on Employees
• “In times where small instructor-led classrooms tend to be the exception, electronic learning solutions can offer more collaboration and interaction with experts and peers, as well as a higher success rate than the live alternative.” — Keith Bachman
• “At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is.” — Anant Agarwal
• “So far technology has hardly changed formal education at all. But a lot of people, including me, think this is the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things—especially in combination with face-to-face learning.” — Bill Gates
• “…Successful and sustainable gamification can convert customers into fans, turn work into fun, or make learning a joy. The potential is enormous.” — Brian Burke
• “Online learning is fundamentally student-centered, due to the easy implementation of student discussion boards and peer grading systems.” — Sander Tamm
• “Most of the important things in life I learned online, at work, from experience, or by talking to people.” — Marushia Dark
• “The students of the future will demand the learning support that is appropriate for their situation or context. Nothing more, nothing less. And they want it at the moment the need arises. Not sooner, not later. Mobile devices will be a key technology for providing that learning support.” — Dr. Marcus Specht
• “Online learning provides fantastic flexibility, among other benefits, and aids in making the task of arranging development opportunities far easier.” — Dr. Sharon Jones
• “What if we…are missing more e-learning specific definitions that are independent of face-to-face teaching, such as democratization and scalability? And as a last mental exercise, what if we started evaluating face-to-face instructions on these objectives?” — Noesgaard and Ørngreen, The Effectiveness of E-Learning
• “eLearning is changing. And, we will see new models, new technologies, and designs emerge. So, let’s drop the “e” – or at least give it a new and wider definition.” — Elliot Masie
• “The number one factor in engagement is relevance, because relevance drives out resistance.” — Clive Shepherd
• “Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing prepackaged assignments, and spitting out answers. They must talk about what they are learning, write reflectively about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives.” — Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann
• “You can’t teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.” — Seymour Papert
• “Boring e-learning fails to engage the learner’s mind, and without that basic motivation and action, nothing can happen even when the learner goes through all the required motions.” — Ethan Edwards
• “I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do, and do not fear anything.” — Rita Levi
• “The most important principle for designing lively eLearning is to see eLearning design not as information design but as designing an experience.” — Cathy Moore
• “Teaching in the Internet age means we must teach tomorrow’s skills today.” — Dr. Jennifer Fleming
• “Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.” — Heidi-Hayes Jacobs
• “eLearning shouldn’t be a casual joy ride on a Sunday afternoon with the cruise control engaged. The sole purpose of eLearning is to teach.” — Christopher Palm
• “The most profound words will remain unread unless you can keep the learner engaged. You can’t see their eyes to know if they got it so … say it, show it, write it, demo it and link it to an activity.” —   James Bates

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David Poglar’s How to Live Online on Skillshare: 5 Ways to Shape Your Digital World

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40 Reading Quotes That Will Make You Crave a Good Book

Curl up with these quotes.

Y ou can find all sorts of beautiful, inspirational quotes in the books that you read—but there are no shortage of great quotes about reading itself, too. Bibliophiles will love these reading quotes from everyone from writers to former presidents and first ladies. They'll leave you longing to find a new great read. Plus, check out our favorite quotes  from books.

Reading is paradise

"I have always imagined paradise as a kind of library." —Jorge Luis Borges . Maybe one of the most impressive libraries in every state fits the bill!

Reading is friendship

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." —Paul Sweeney .

Reading is addictive

"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip." —Diane Duane. All different kinds of books can be addicting, but these are the 20 true crime books you won't be able to put down .

Reading is immortality

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one." —George R. R. Martin . Speaking of, here are the 100 books everyone should read before they die .

Reading is education

“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” —Malcolm X.  Here are 15 essential books for learning about race relations and anti-racism .

Reading is necessary

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." —Joseph Brodsky . And don't forget, your brain needs you to read every day .

Reading is eternal

"A good book has no ending." —R. D. Cumming . These reading quotes definitely apply to these 41 highest-rated books on Goodreads .

Reading is discovery

"No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books." —Romain Rolland .

Reading is teaching

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." —Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These are the 25 best children's books ever written .

Reading is just a room away

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." —Groucho Marx . Some of these reading quotes are pretty funny.

Reading is hard to resist

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" —Henry Ward Beecher . Find out the best-loved bookstore in every state .

Reading is that warm, cozy feeling

"Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." —Hazel Rochman. 

Reading is not going anywhere

"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators." —Stephen Fry

Reading is a window to the soul

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." —Oscar Wilde

Reading is a healthy relationship

"Books are the ultimate dump-ees: Put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back." —John Green .

Reading is a matter of taste

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." —George Bernard Shaw. 

Reading is collaboration

"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it." —Samuel Johnson . Have you read these 25 bestselling books of the decade ?

Reading is easy to mess up

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read." —Mark Twain

Reading is formative

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." —Ralph Waldo Emerson . Read these 25 uplifting quotes that will stay with you .

Reading is never enough

"I read my eyes out and can't read half enough... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read." —John Adams . In addition to reading quotes, Commanders-in-Chief are responsible for some of these funny president quotes .

Reading is a fashion statement

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." —P. J. O'Rourke

Reading is a mental statement

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." —Haruki Murakami . For something different, pick up one of the works of these 23 contemporary authors you should have heard of by now .

Reading is a light in the dark

"Fairytales don't tell children that dragons exist... Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed." —Gilbert K. Chesterton.  Check out the most popular fairytale stories of all time .

Reading is worth looking forward to

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." —Kathleen Norris

Reading is relaxation

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." —C. S. Lewis.  Sounds great! Just like these reading quotes, these calming photos will instantly make you feel warm and cozy.

Reading is the first step

"Think before you speak. Read before you think." — Fran Lebowitz

Reading is a spell

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." —Stephen King .

Reading is second nature

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." —Harper Lee .

Reading is rereading

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads." —François Mauriac .

Reading is instant comfort

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." —Jane Smiley

Reading is joy

"When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness." —Vincent Starrett

Reading is power

"A beggar's book out-worths a noble's blood." —William Shakespeare . We bet you didn't know that these common expressions were coined by Shakespeare .

Reading is time travel

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic." —Carl Sagan

Reading is hope

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light." —Vera Nazarian

Reading is wisdom

"Literature is news that stays news." —Ezra Pound .

Reading is transformative

"A good book is an event in my life." —Stendhal

Reading is a gift

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." —Emilie Buchwald . In fact, here are some of the best books for grandparents to read to their grandchildren .

Reading is dangerous

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned." —Saul Bellow

Reading is the end-all

"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." —Stéphane Mallarmé

Reading is up to you

"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it." —Toni Morrison . These reading quotes encourage writing, too—imagine creating something that someone else will love to read! Next, read 35 life-changing quotes you won't forget .

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Happy World Book Day 2024: 30 powerful quotes by renowned authors to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day

On world book and copyright day 2024, celebrate the profound impact that books and reading have on us with this list of 30 powerful quotes by renowned authors.

Celebrated every year on April 23, World Book and Copyright Day or World Book Day is an occasion to promote the joy of books and the art of reading where the date was selected by UNESCO to pay homage to renowned literary figures including William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and as serial bibliophiles, we too can't help but celebrate the profound impact that books and reading have on our lives, minds and souls. If you, like us, enjoy the company of books more than the company of humans, you can vouch for the unique ability that the books have to both entertain and teach.

These bundles of ink on paper are not just a means of exploring realms beyond our personal experience through exposure to different authors, universes and cultures but also a means of accessing the deepest recesses of our inner selves. As this Tuesday i.e. World Book Day marks worldwide celebrations to recognise the scope of books as a link between the past and the future, along with being a cultural and generational bridge, check out this list of 30 powerful quotes by renowned authors:

• "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King
• "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
• "A book is a dream that you hold in your hand." - Neil Gaiman
• "There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway
• "Books are the mirrors of the soul." - Virginia Woolf
• "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen
• "A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." - Charles Baudelaire
• "Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." - Anna Quindlen
• "Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well." - Mark Haddon
• "Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'" - Helen Exley
• "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." - Edward P. Morgan
• "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles William Eliot
• "The book you don't read won't help." - Jim Rohn
• "Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world." - Walter Pater
• "A house without books is like a room without windows." - Heinrich Mann
• "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." - Barbara Tuchman
• "A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance." - Lyndon B. Johnson
• "Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life." - Jesse Lee Bennett
• "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Joseph Addison
• "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." - Chinese Proverb
• "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - René Descartes
• 'That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet'' - Jhumpa Lahiri
• ''Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world'' - Malala Yousafzai
• "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me'' - C.S. Lewis
• “So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa
• “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain
• “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
• “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde
• “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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School book challenges continue despite new Florida rules

• Jeffrey S. Solochek Times staff

The big story: In recent weeks, Florida officials have taken steps to dampen school book challenges, adopting laws and rules aimed at cutting the number of titles removed from shelves.

The efforts didn’t change the underlying laws that prompted some school districts to pull materials while reviewing content. And they don’t seem to be stopping the flow of community complaints.

The Hillsborough County School Board will hear two on Monday. Hernando County’s board will take up 24 a week later. Author Sonya Sones hopes to convince the Hernando district to leave her book “The Opposite of Innocent” available for teens who might benefit from it. Read more here .

Florida Freedom to Read Project leaders say confusion over what state laws say has led to questions over which books may remain, WGCU reports.

In higher ed

Campus protests: Protests over the Israel-Hamas war arrived at some of Florida’s university campuses , with more planned. The tone has been mostly pro-Palestinian, including demands that schools divest from firms that have interest in Israel’s war efforts. • Florida State University has asked pro-Palestine protesters to remove tents from campus , later turning sprinklers on the site, Florida Phoenix reports. • Here are some photos from UF’s protest from WUFT.

Math lessons: Northwest Florida State College students no longer must take math courses that are not part of their degree plans , the Northwest Florida Daily News reports.

University presidents: Florida Polytechnic University trustees approved a three-year contract with a starting salary of $490,000 for incoming president Devin Stephenson, News Service of Florida reports.

From the court docket ... The state of Florida officially joined Florida State University in its lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference , demanding records that the conference has refused to produce.

K-12 hot topics

Career education: Palm Harbor Middle School in Pinellas County has launched a new medical academy , WFTS reports.

Employee discipline: Three cheer coaches at a Leon County high school were removed after an investigation determined they gave alcohol and drugs to students during a cheer travel trip, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. • The Duval County school district announced plans to overhaul its teacher misconduct policies and procedures, WTLV reports.

Job cuts: Concerns are rising that “massive” job cuts are coming to Duval County schools as the district deals with financial issues, WTLV reports.

Lunch line: Central Florida schools are getting ready for new federal nutrition guidelines that will reduce the amount of sugar and sodium in cafeteria offerings, WMFE reports.

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Security: A national conference on student safety and security came to Orlando, where the latest equipment was on display, Spectrum 13 reports.

Title IX: Florida education commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. told school districts to put off implementing new federal Title IX guidelines protecting transgender students, the Tallahassee Democrat reports. “Florida will fight this,” Diaz wrote. Officials in Louisiana, Oklahoma and South Carolina took a similar stance.

From the police blotter ... A volunteer coach at a Cape Coral charter school was arrested on accusations of sending sexually explicit text messages to a student, WBBH reports. • A former Palm Beach County substitute teacher was arrested on additional charges of sexual battery against a student after another victim came forward, WPTV reports.

Don’t miss a story. Here’s a link to yesterday’s roundup .

Before you go ... Heart plays Tampa tonight. Wonder if they’ll do this classic tribute?

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at [email protected].

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World Book And Copyright Day 2024: Date, Theme, History and Importance

Every year on april 23, world book and copyright day is observed. this day celebrates literature in all its forms and encourages readers to enjoy reading.

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A free book each month for preschoolers, thanks to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Waylon Piechowiak was laughing and running around a play area inside the Early Learning Coalition of Marion County building on Thursday. His mother, Elizabeth Ekleberry, an employee at the center, smiled as she watched her son.

Ekleberry said she loves to read. She reads a book to Waylon and his 10-year-old brother every night before the kids go to bed.

For the next three years, Waylon will receive a book a month for free, thanks to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library .

About 50 people gathered Thursday morning at the coalition offices for a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the new partnership with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Among those in attendance was Ocala Mayor Ben Marciano.

Waylon was the first child from Marion County to sign up for the program, officials said.

According to officials at the center, those interested in the program can enroll their child or children at  ImaginationLibrary.com/USA/Affiliate/FLMarionCo . Once a child is enrolled, the first books will be sent to the child's residence within 12 weeks. Each month, the child will receive a free book until their 5th birthday.

Coalition CEO Carrie Theall said in a press release that the community's response has been positive. "Over a thousand children were registered in less than a week. This shows us the level of interest parents have to increase the pre-literacy skills of their children.”

Ekleberry wished the program was available for her older son. She said once she learned the program was coming to the community, she quickly signed up Waylon.

"I was waiting for the moment," she said.

Information on the Dolly Parton library and Early Learning Coalition

According to its website , Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has been in existence since 1995, and by 2003, had mailed 1 million books to children. In 2022, the site states, 2 million books were mailed each month globally. The program has reached Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, according to the website.

The goal of the Early Learning Coalition of Marion County is to "meet the early care and education needs of children and families in Marion County," according to a press release announcing Thursday's event.

Coalition officials said "they implement the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK), School Readiness, and Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) programs on behalf of the Florida Department of Education Division of Early Learning."

Additional information about the coalition can be obtained by calling (352) 369-2315 or visiting  ELC-Marion.org .

Contact Austin L. Miller at [email protected]

Factbox-Key Quotes From Trump's Criminal Hush Money Trial

Factbox-Key Quotes From Trump's Criminal Hush Money Trial

FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits as final jurors are sworn in during his criminal trial on charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in Manhattan state court in New York City, U.S. April 19, 2024 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/Pool/File Photo

By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Opening statements kicked off on Monday in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump and the first prosecution witness, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, took the stand. Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment made by Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Here are some key quotes from the proceedings:

-"This case is about a conspiracy and a cover-up, an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of a presidential election, and then the steps that Donald Trump took to conceal that illegal election fraud,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo told the jury during his opening statement. 

-“No politician wants bad press, but the evidence at trial will show that this was not spin or communications strategy. This was a planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, to help Donald Trump get elected through illegal expenditures to silence people who had something bad to say about his behavior,” Colangelo said. “It was election fraud, pure and simple.” 

“The defendant disguised his reimbursements to Michael Cohen through 11 falsified invoices, 12 falsified ledger entries, and 11 falsified checks,” Colangelo said.

Colangelo also described an alleged scheme to “catch and kill” Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story of a months-long affair she says she had with Trump, which is not a formal part of the indictment. 

“The evidence will show that the defendant desperately did not want this info about Karen McDougal to become public because he was worried about its impact on the election,” Colangelo said. 

Trump has denied the affair.

-Trump lawyer Todd Blanche countered that Trump, whom he referred to as President Trump, is innocent. 

"President Trump did not commit any crimes. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office should never have brought this case,” Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the jury during his opening statement.

-"There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It’s called democracy. They put something sinister on this idea, as if it’s a crime,” Blanche said.   

-Blanche said that despite Trump’s celebrity and stature as a former president, he is also a husband and father. 

“He is in some ways larger than life, but he’s also here in this courtroom doing what any of us would do: defending himself,” Blanche said.

"President Trump fought back like he always does and like he’s entitled to do to protect his family, his reputation and his brand - and that is not a crime,” Blanche told the jury.

-Blanche asserted that Stormy Daniels is lying about the former president for financial gain.  

“She saw her chance to make a lot of money, and it worked,” Blanche said, referring to the hush money payout. 

He also said Cohen was not trustworthy.

-"He has a goal - an obsession - with getting Trump,” Blanche said of Cohen, adding that he had lied under oath during previous testimony in other cases. “I submit to you that he cannot be trusted.”     

-David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and the first prosecution witness to take the stand said he had the final say over publishing decisions.

"Yes. I had the final say on the celebrity side of the magazine industry, at least on the tabloid side. We used checkbook journalism and we paid for stories," he said.

(Reporting by Luc Cohen and Jack Queen; Writing by Noeleen Walder; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

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