Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of daily reading and writing as essential habits for learning and self-expression.
Gary Paulsen's quote encourages individuals to approach reading with the ferocity and dedication of a wolf that hunts for its food. It highlights the idea that consistent practice in both reading and writing is vital for personal and creative development, urging us to make these activities a daily ritual to foster knowledge and skill.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of lifelong learning.
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.
This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.
You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
Geography is the study of earth as the home of people
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.
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