When students leave my class questioning their world and being better critical thinkers than they were when they came to me, we have been successful.
Reading is an enormous part of that.

Nicole Kelsheimer
The ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
--Malcolm X
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
-- bell hooks
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.
--Descartes
The more you read, the more things you'll know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
--Dr. Seuss in "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut"
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
--Elbert Hubbard
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