Quotes About Literacy

I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the kids around my area of London are from immigrant families and need extra help with reading.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

I'm a voracious reader.

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

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

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my mother would read to my brother and I and we had all those advantages that everyone says you need to be successful in school and I was successful in school.

My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.

People enjoy being read to, beginning from when they're little.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.

And there are among them illiterates

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women…. If much depends as is allowed upon the early education of youth and the first principles which are instilled take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

Literacy alters patterns of life that have gone undisturbed for generations.

genetic genealogy companies will sell you kits that claim to grant you membership to historical peoples, albeit ill-defined, highly romanticized versions of ancient Europeans. This type of genetic astrology, though unscientific and distasteful to my palate, is really just a bit of meaningless fantasy; its real damage is that it undermines scientific literacy in the general public.

We know that children whose parents read them bedtime stories do better than those whose parents do not.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.