Quotes About Literacy

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

I don't care how big a loser you may or may not perceive yourself to be right now, the fact that you're literate, have the luxury of time to read this book and the money to buy it puts you way ahead of the game.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

Embarrassed someone would see you and think you're capable of reading?" I do have a reputation to maintain." And what a lovely reputation that is.

Where did you go to school?" Piers inquired. "Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

There is thus an illiterate air about the most literate true believer. He seems to use words as if he were ignorant of their true meaning. Hence, too, his taste for quibbling, hair-splitting and scholastic tortuousness.

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.