A. D. Patel Quotes

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

I taught my son to read with tabloids. We would sit to read the 'Weekly World News' together.

I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

There's not much opportunity to learn to read the news. By and large, you either can or you can't do it pretty much straight away.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn how to do, and that they get to have for themselves, as opposed to somebody telling them what to do and how to do it.

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.

We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate them to not only learn how to critically read this ubiquitous screen culture but also how to be cultural producers.

We have so much access to one another through technology and everything else, that we're very much used to people being real. When folks go on TV and they're basically acting - if they were good actors they'd be acting and paid for it for a living, but they're not good actors. When we see bad acting, it doesn't look like bad acting, it looks weird, and we are turned off by it. I'm not talking about anybody in particular, that's just politics right now. This generation, I feel like, has incredible bullshit detectors.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!