12 Quotes by Donalyn Miller

We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning to love reading, we are creating adults (who then become parents and teachers) who don't read much. They may be capable of reading well enough to perform academic and informational reading, but they do not love to read and have few life reading habits to model for children.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Instead of standing on a stage each day, dispensing knowledge to my young charges, I should guide them as they approach their own understandings.