function StringArray (n) { this.length = n; for (var i =1; i <= n; i++) { this[i] = ' ' } } quote = new StringArray(61) quote[0] = "The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education." quote[1] = "I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught." quote[2] = "Books may well be the only true magic." quote[3] = "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. " quote[4] = "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." quote[5] = "Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." quote[6] = "The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page." quote[7] = "Reading surrounds us, labels us, defines us." quote[8] = "I cannot live without books." quote[9] = "You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books." quote[10] = "Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life." quote[11] = "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that gain by reading, just as I did when I was young." quote[12] = "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." quote[13] = "When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own." quote[14] = "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." quote[15] = "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." quote[16] = "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." quote[17] = "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." quote[18] = "To read is to empower; to empower is to write; to write is to influence; to Influence is to change; to change is to live." quote[19] = "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." quote[20] = "Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind." quote[21] = "I am not a teacher but an awakener." quote[22] = "To teach is to learn twice over." quote[23] = "People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading." quote[24] = "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework" quote[25] = "The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth." quote[26] = "Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions." quote[27] = "Enthusiasm is contagious; start an epidemic." quote[28] = "It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." quote[29] = "We can affect the lives of more students, more deeply, for a longer period of time, at less cost, by teaching them to read well by third grade, than by any other single thing we can do in our school systems." quote[30] = "Children will become readers only if their emotions have been engaged, their imaginations stirred and stretched by what they find on the printed pages." quote[31] = "Too often ... the implementation of a tedious remediation program is designed to drill into the child the dullest mechanics of the reading process. For someone who has already learned to hate reading there could hardly be a more futile approach. Drills of skills will not generate interest in reading if none has ever been aroused." quote[32] = "All efforts to teach reading must begin with literature. Literature appeals directly to the emotions and the imagination, carrying within a powerful motivation to participate in its wonders and delights. It is only the art of literature that can successfully encounter the drawing power of television and the mass media." quote[33] = "Twenty years of working with 'reluctant readers' -- a term I dislike but use because it is a convenient code -- of all ages has convinced me that a teacher's own literateness is her best resource, her best strategy, and probably her only hope." quote[34] = "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." quote[35] = "In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read . . . It is not that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." quote[36] = "The newest books are those that never grow old." quote[37] = "It is within the power of every teacher. . . to give children a rich experience with literature. We must do more than teach children to read; we must help them to become readers, to find a lifetime of pleasure in the reading of good books." quote[38] = "When we as teachers share our own reading with students we can emphasize how reading enhances our lives. Reading helps us learn more about the world in which we live, gives us pleasure and enjoyment, develops our vocabulary and reading can help us become better speakers and writers. Most importantly, by sharing appropriate parts of our own personal reading with students they will begin to see us as real readers." quote[39] = "A child miseducated is a child lost." quote[40] = "Books have a special magic when they come alive, when the characters become friends and when the places described seem real." quote[41] = "The single most important thing you can do to help students become better writers is to provide them with time to write, materials with which to write, and to demonstrate the process and the importance of writing with them." quote[42] = "Because writing is thinking and because learning requires thinking, students who write as they are learning will think more and, thus, will learn more." quote[43] = "Engagement with story is life-affirming; it puts us in touch with the world, with one another, and with our essential selves." quote[44] = "It is not enough to know about books and even to talk about them. Children must encounter them: a close encounter of the very first kind." quote[45] = "A skill--no matter how well it has been taught cannot be considered a strategy until the learner can use it purposefully and independently....The learner must know how and when to apply the skill; that is what elevates it to the strategy level." quote[46] = "The power of fiction is to create empathy. It lifts you away from your chair and gently stuffs you down someone else’s point of view." quote[47] = "If there is a fatal notion on this earth, it’s the notion that wider horizons will be fatal." quote[48] = "Phonics instruction is an essential part of a reading program--but it is not a reading program." quote[49] = "... when a teacher provides more routes to the goals of literacy, more children will find a route to take them there. Phonics instruction is an essential part of a reading program--but it is not a reading program." quote[50] = "If children come to you without the critical understandings, you cannot avoid taking the time needed to develop them. Lacking a clear knowledge of what reading and writing are for, and lacking a firm desire to learn how to do them, most children will fail." quote[51] = "Anything less than consistently high-quality instruction has a dramatically negative impact on the achievement of children from homes in which parents did not provide high levels of home literacy support." quote[52] = "Nothing done for children is ever wasted." quote[53] = "It is certainly my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then." quote[54] = "When the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) compared the reading skills of 210,000 students from 32 different countries, it found the highest scores (regardless of income level) among children who were read to by their teachers daily and who read the most pages for pleasure daily" quote[55] = "Reading is the food, light, lamp, refuge, solace of the soul, the spice ofall spiritual flavors. It feeds the hungry, gives light to the one sitting in darkness, offers bread to the one fleeing shipwreck or war, comforts the contrite heart." quote[56] = "If the children are not learning to read, think, and talk deeply, it is because we have not taught them how!" quote[57] = "Books are . . . funny little portable pieces of thought." quote[58] = "Books are the palne, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." quote[59] = "I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunken treasure." quote[60] = "I dwell in possibility." author = new StringArray(58) author[0] = "~ Ralph Waldo Emerson" author[1] = "~ Sir Winston Churchill" author[2] = "~ Alice Hoffman " author[3] = "~ Pete Seeger" author[4] = "~ William Butler Yeats" author[5] = "~ Stephan Mallarme" author[6] = "~ Unknown" author[7] = "~ Rich Gold" author[8] = "~ Thomas Jefferson" author[9] = "~ Carter Burden" author[10] = "~ Mortimer J. Adler" author[11] = "~ Maya Angelou" author[12] = "~ Francis Bacon" author[13] = "~ John Berger" author[14] = "~ Emilie Buchwald" author[15] = "~ Edmund Burke" author[16] = "~ Chinese proverb" author[17] = "~ Walt Disney" author[18] = "~ Jane Evershed" author[19] = "~ W. Fusselman" author[20] = "~ James Russell Lowell" author[21] = "~ Robert Frost" author[22] = "~ Joseph Joubert" author[23] = "~ Logan Pearsall Smith" author[24] = "~ Lily Tomlin as Edith Ann" author[25] = "~ Dan Rather" author[26] = "~ Unknown" author[27] = "~ Don Ward" author[28] = "~ S.I. Hayakawa" author[29] = "~ Kathy Daly" author[30] = "~ Glenna Davis Sloan" author[31] = "~ Glenna Davis Sloan" author[32] = "~ Glenna Davis Sloan" author[33] = "~ Susan Ohanian" author[34] = "~ Ray Bradbury" author[35] = "~ S.I. Hayakawa" author[36] = "~ Holbrook Jackson" author[37] = "~ Charlotte Huck" author[38] = "~ Linda Gambrell" author[39] = "~ John F. Kennedy" author[40] = "~ Jan Brett" author[41] = "~ Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington" author[42] = "~ Patricia Cunningham & Richard Allington" author[43] = "~ Kay Vandergrift" author[44] = "~ Maurice Saxby" author[45] = "~ Regie Routman" author[46] = "~ Barbara Kingsolver in High Tide in Tucson" author[47] = "~ Barbara Kingsolver in High Tide in Tucson" author[48] = "~ Cunningham & Allington in Classrooms That Work, 1999" author[49] = "~ Cunningham & Allington in Classrooms That Work, 1999" author[50] = "~ Cunningham & Allington in Classrooms That Work, 1999" author[51] = "~ Catherine Snow in Unfulfilled Expectations, 1991" author[52] = "~ Mark Twain" author[53] = "~ C.S. Lewis" author[54] = "~ Richard Allington" author[55] = "~ Peter of Celle, 12th century" author[56] = "~ Linda Hoyt" author[57] = "~ Susan Sontag" author[58] = "~ Anna Quindlen" author[59] = "~ Virginia Woolf" author[60] = "~ Emily Dickinson" function writeQuote() { var now = new Date() var sec = now.getSeconds() var core = sec % quote.length var thequote = quote[core] var theauthor = author[core] var theq = '"' var theend = '' document.write( '

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