Quotes About Literacy

in Flaubert's eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly:

For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will suffer.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.

I don't think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn't be the person I am today if it wasn't for the opportunities the library gave me.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

help us give books to kids who need them. Who crave them. And whose lives will be forever changed by them.

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.

Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad.

Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called "health literacy." It

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Since he also asked, famously, "Is our children learning?" one expected that his first official act as president would be to cancel the agreement between subjects and verbs.)

The act of reading to a child is the most important contribution to the future of our society that adults can make.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

I remember that children in my class would hate the English club, whereas I was always found in the library.

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.