Reading gap between wealthy and poor students widens, study says: NBC

Reading gap between wealthy and poor students widens, study says

 “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.”
― Kofi Annan

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
^{- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)}

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. –Ralph Waldo Emerson