G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.

Kids who read are bright.

I like to read and understand.

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.