

“I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.”
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“...Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?”
― Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
― Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

“You cannot live with a paw in each world.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild

“Teenagers want to read - if we let them.”
― Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers
― Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers

“It means,” said Aslan, “that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward. And now—”
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
― The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

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