Quotes About Literacy

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve

Many more learned their science in the most practical way: as apprentices to artisans who were more likely to be literate than ever before in history.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn't like.

A teacher must read. How can a teacher justify not reading? A teacher must love books. You people are making a tragic mistake in your school leadership by placing people who do not read into positions of authority. Cag the alien in "Them" William W. Johnstone

Use the money for fashion to get books.

Por mais revolucionárias que sejam, disse, as pessoas não podem viver sem livros. Sem livros não compreenderíamos o mundo; sem livros não poderíamos desenvolver; sem livros, a natureza não pode servir a humanidade.

Wherever the Christian faith has been found, there has been a close association with the written word of God, with books, education, and learning.

His chosen medium—writing—had, he believed, a high potential for holding America together. America was a nation of readers, known worldwide for its high literacy rates. At midcentury, a full 90 percent of white American adults could read, as opposed to about 60 percent in England. Whitman crowed hyperbolically: "In regard to intelligence, education, knowledge, the masses of [English] people, in comparison with the masses of the U.S., are at least two hundred years behind us.

Education is a cycle of reading, thinking and writing.

The world belongs to those who read.

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity.

One of the ways to get the information or knowledge to is by reading!

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Value-Added message: Have a master's degree in library science (Able to assist and contribute to library and media services)

because Judaism required the reading of the Torah and promoted literacy in Talmudic academies, the Jewish community's human capital increased

In that house, Rob read. Rather, Jackie read to him, but she felt as if he were reading along with her. With the opening of a book, a shift occurred in his eyes and he nestled an inch deeper into her lap while angling his chin upward, and he seemed to age a year or two. Not a reader herself, Jackie went to the local library for the first time and pulled the popular titles: the Berenstain Bears, Richard Scarry wordbooks, Dr. Seuss, Eric Carle.

that if you don't read nobody does

I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.

Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy.

There's always hope when a kid—or an adult, for that matter—likes to read.