Quotes About Literacy

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

It is woefully hard to find good, or even merely literate, writers, and they laugh at me when I say that sloppy, go-as-you-please writing carries less authority than decent prose. You must remember our public, they say. And indeed that is what I do, and I think the public is fully able to deal with the best they can produce. Patronizing the public, and assuming that it hangs, breathless, upon what it reads in the papers, is almost the worst of journalistic sins.

Anyone who has the price of a newspaper should have a fair chance of understanding most of what's written in it

Having helped Eliza keep the books, he enjoyed a head start.

Starting kids reading before they're ready can actually boomerang and turn them off to reading

The proposition that the alphabet has hindered women's aspirations and accomplishments seems, at first glance, to be antithetical to historical facts.

Speak English! said the Eaglet. I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where the book is merely an accessory and be, in the deepest, truest sense, a reader.

Habla el autor] A los cuatro años descubrí que sabía leer. (...) No aprendí a escribir hasta mucho después, cumplidos los siete años. Quizá pudiese vivir sin escribir. No creo que pudiera vivir sin leer. (...)

de abrir esta Puerta en el Muro? La respuesta, a todos los efectos prácticos, es Ninguno. En un mundo donde la educación es predominantemente verbal, las personas muy cultas hallan poco menos que imposible dedicar una seria atención a lo que no sea palabras y nociones.

Although she was not a great reader, Mma Potokwane was a firm believer in the power of the book. The more books that Botswana had, in her view, the better. It would be on books that the future would be based; books and the people who knew how to use them.

over the past fifty of your years, you've improved your health, longevity, literacy, quality of life, prosperity, and everything else. Dramatically. Yet almost all of you believe the opposite is true. Why? Because your news and social media is almost all negative. All alarming. All divisive. You've become more pessimistic, more tribal, than ever before. Your politicians ever more corrupt, manipulative, and self-serving.

We are badly diseased with regard to vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, and what we desperately need is for someone to write an elegant little volume of sane English usage that will make us all whole again.

You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.