How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.