Quotes About Literacy

Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

I'm not an elitist. I just know how to read.

Ninguém deve ser forçado a ler nada. Ler é um direito de cada cidadão, não é um dever.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and is best picked up in childhood.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

I believe that only a well-read, well-aware individual can make a great leader and build a progressive nation.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

I didn't even enter a bookshop until I was 14 because I couldn't afford books until I got my first Saturday job, but by the time I was six or seven, I spent practically every Saturday down my local library reading as much as I could and getting out as many books as I could.

I want to make sure kids read by the third grade and are prepared for the fourth grade. As school gets harder and kids get older, the words get bigger... If they don't understand what they are reading, they start to fall back, and their interest in school falls off.

The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

As a country, we can't teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that's - that's a disgrace.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

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

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.