I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the importance of parental support in fostering a love for reading and learning.
Kate DiCamillo reflects on her fortunate upbringing, where her mother played a crucial role in her literary development by taking her to the library regularly, purchasing books, and reading to her. This nurturing environment not only instilled a passion for reading but also emphasizes the transformative power of access to literature and parental involvement in education.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of education, I quoted Kate DiCamillo to illustrate how vital parental involvement is in developing a love for reading.
If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child at a regular time each day, it deepens the relationship. You don't have to talk about stuff; the story will do that work for you.
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?
When schools flourish, all flourishes.
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
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