We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F. Skinner.

We shouldn't teach great books;

we should teach a love of reading.

~ B. F. Skinner

II am a part of am a part of everything that I have everything that I have

read.read.~ John Kieran

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 2 of 24

‘Tis the reader that makes the good

book.~Emerson

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 3 of 24

We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we

are.~Anais Nin

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 4 of 24

All the student’s knowledge about literary history, about

authors and periods and literary types, will be so

much useless baggage if he has not been led primarily to seek in literature a vital

personal experience.~Rosenblatt

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 5 of 24

If students are truly to learn to read and write,

they must witness literacy making a difference, first

to themselves, then to others.~Janet Emig

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 6 of 24

Every child, and the child in every one of us, is

ready to plead: Tell me a story. For the role of

stories is to explain life, and the good stories, in their very substance and in the structure of their

language, become revelation.

~Diane Schoemperlen©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 7 of 24

The The universe is universe is

made of made of stories, not stories, not of atoms.of atoms.

~Muriel Rukeyser

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 8 of 24

The hardest battle is to be nobody but

yourself in a world that is doing its best,

night and day, to make you like

everybody else.~E.E. Cummings

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 9 of 24

Inside every

fat book is a thin book

trying to get out.

~Unknown

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 10 of 24

You can tell whether a man is clever by his

answers. You can tell whether a man is wise

by his questions.~Naquib Mahfouz

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 11 of 24

These are not books, lumps of lifeless

paper, but minds alive

on the shelves.

~Gilbert Highet ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 12 of 24

The more that you read,the more things you will

know.The more that you learn,the more places you'll go.

~Dr. Seuss

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 13 of 24

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

~Bert Williams

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 14 of 24

The real voyage of discovery lies not in

seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

~Marcel Proust

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 15 of 24

I often feel sorry for people who don't read

good books;they are missing a chance

to lead an extra life.~Scott Corbett

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 16 of 24

Reader and writer, we wish each other well. Don’t we

want and don’t we understand the same thing?

A story of beauty and passion, some fresh

approximation of human truth?

~Eudora Welty

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 17 of 24

Books are the bees which carry the

quickening pollen

from one to another mind. ~James Russell Lowell 

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 18 of 24

The chief glory of every people

arises from its authors.

~Dr. Samuel Johnson

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 19 of 24

Literature is no one’s private ground,

literature is common ground; let us trespass

freely and fearlessly and find our own way for

ourselves.~Virginia Woolf

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 20 of 24

All that Mankind has done,

thought, gained or been--

it is lying as in magic

preservation in the pages of

books.~Thomas Carlyle©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 21 of 24

To read without reflecting is like eating without

digesting.~Edmund Burke

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 22 of 24

You don't have to burn books to

destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading

them.~Ray Bradbury

©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 23 of 24

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 ofmyself in the world, I would do that again by reading,just as I did when I was

young.~Maya Angelou ©2011, TESCCC 06/08/12 Slide 24 of 24