Quotes About Literacy

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.

I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries. That is my greatest satisfaction.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

The past is what's written down. It is very quiet; only people who can write make any sound at all.

Can literacy destroy?

Massachusetts's poor laws required that boys be taught to write and girls to read.7

Study hard, little one. For if you can read, you can slip into the pages of a book and escape into your mind.

Librarians: Kicking Ignorance in the Balls for Over 4000 Years

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to.

The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head—by reading.

When someone becomes a teacher, she's like the matchmaker in Fiddler on the Roof. All year long she's trying to entice students to go out on dates with authors—that is, to pick up this book or that book and spend twenty minutes with the author, someone they've never met. The better she knows her students and authors or books, the more successful will be the "matchmaking." But the teacher (or librarian) who doesn't read much will fail for sure.

Allow children to choose the books they wish to read to themselves, even if they don't meet your high standards.

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know; and the more you know, the smarter you grow.

The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries