Starbucks - The Way I See It #181

A childs mind isn't a blank slate; it's more of a jungle. Each time a parent helps a toddler read, the child is walked through this jungle from one side to the other. Trip after trip, a seemingly impossible passage becomes a well-worn path.
Children sent to kindergarten skipping merrily along this path to literacy fare far better than those sent to school with machetes.
- Keith Mastrion ("Reading Man" and 1998 National Teach of the Year)