“Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.”
Source: Rhythms of Learning
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
As quoted in B. F. Skinner : The Man and His Ideas (1968) by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73.
Context: We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

“Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.”
Interview with Amanda Craig, "Grand dame of letters who's not going quietly," The Times, London (23 November 2003) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14449-1132868_3,00.html

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Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
Introduction, p. viii.
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1st Public Talk, Bangalore, India (30 January 1971)
1970s

Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 43

As quoted in B. F. Skinner : The Man and His Ideas (1968) by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73