2. Teaching students to acquire knowledge with the help of existing knowledge is the highest teaching skill. ("Suggestions for Teachers" page 24)
3. The eagerness to learn and a clear learning purpose are the most important motivation for students' learning activities. (Selected Works of Suhomlinski (V), page 12)
4. Learning in school is not to put knowledge from one mind into another without enthusiasm, but to have spiritual contact between teachers and students all the time. (Advice to Teachers, page 315)
5. Without fairy tales, children's complete intellectual development is inconceivable. (Selected Works of Suhomlinski (I), p. 13)
6. The intellectual development of students depends on good reading ability. (Advice for Teachers, page 1)
7. A book full of wisdom and inspiration can often decide a person's fate. (The Art of Education, page 178)
8. Books are an indispensable source of knowledge and an inexhaustible source of your spiritual wealth. (How to Cultivate Real People, p. 145)
9. I think a very important educational task is to make reading the strongest and mentally irresistible desire of every child. (How to Cultivate Real People, page 126)
1. The more difficult a student feels in learning, the more difficulties he encounters in mental work, and the more he needs to read. ("Suggestions for Teachers" page 51)
11. Be a thoughtful person. Be good at thinking while reading, and reading while thinking. (page 145 of How to Cultivate Real People)
12. I firmly believe that the self-education of teenagers begins with reading a good book. (Advice to Teachers, p. 391)
13. One of the shortcomings of school education is that there is no real reading that occupies all the minds and hearts of students. (Advice to Teachers, page 521)
14. Students should be educated not only to read books, but also to read some books repeatedly. (Selected Works of Suhomlinski (IV), p. 688)