My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
Mem FoxI realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.
Mem FoxI don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.
Mem FoxExperts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.
Mem FoxIf every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.
Mem Fox