learning to read

A book is a treasure of life.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All the training was necessary for my personal development.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are more to treasure than cars.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to learn. Dare to relearn. Dare to outlier.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Desire to seek, desire to learn.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

— Markus Zusak

History is rich knowledge. On your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television.

— Nick Hornby

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

(Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?, Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And that's what she did

— Richard Feynman