How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips. They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools. . . can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.
Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students
For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism.
All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.