The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now
Donalyn MillerIf 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.
Donalyn MillerWhen we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.
Donalyn MillerReading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.
Donalyn MillerBy believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.
Donalyn Miller