When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
Interpretation
Encouraging reading to children should be enjoyable, not a chore.
This quote emphasizes that when encouraging parents to read to their children, it should be framed as a delightful activity rather than an obligation. Mem Fox uses the metaphor of chocolate to convey that reading should be a sweet experience, fostering a love for books and learning in children.
In practice
During a parent-teacher conference to emphasize the importance of reading.
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.
We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.
I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
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