FROM DILIP MUKERJEA

"Genius is in-born, may it never be still-born."

"Oysters, irritated by grains of sand, give birth to pearls. Brains, irritated by curiosity, give birth to ideas."

"Brainpower is the bridge to the future; it is what transports you from wishful thinking to willful doing."

"Unless you keep learning & growing, the status quo has no status."

Thursday, April 29, 2010

ANOTHER INTERESTING & YET PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE ABOUT READING

Educator Nancie Atwell, writing in her book, 'The Reading Zone', argues that, to be a skilled, passionate, habitual, critical reader, we need:

"... to learn how to make of reading, 'a personal art'... "

"... to become comfortable with the 'P' word — comfortable with 'pleasure' as a motivating force in reading... "

"... to read for pleasure, but not for idleness; for pasttime but not to kill time; to seek, & find, delight & enlargement of life in books... "

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