Quotes About Literacy

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

You get a happy feeling helping someone read. You feel sort of like a wizard.

Those who do not read, are no better off than those who cannot read.

When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language. We are doing something that I believe is just as powerful, and it is something that we are losing as a culture: by reading with a child, we are teaching that child to be human. When we open a book, and share our voice and imagination with a child, that child learns to see the world through someone else's eyes.

One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. It

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Yes. She got into a right state when she realized no one could read them, though. She's setting up some sort of literacy curse. Some of the boys want to know--is that like gypsy magic? Can you curse someone to read?

You know, one thing I learned about actors and actresses - I mean the big stars. They can be the most ignorant people if they get caught up in it very young. Some of them are damn near illiterate. And emotionally they're like people who have grown up in the penal system. I mean, they cannot control their emotions at all.

Chaque fois qu'on m'a parlé de lui, cela commençait par « il ne savait ni lire ni écrire », comme si sa vie et son caractère ne se comprenaient pas sans cette donnée initiale.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC.

Let's put in place programs to ensure that all of our children are reading by third grade.

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

I truly believe there needs to be more programs for artists and musicians to teach basic financial literacy and planning. Coming from where I came from, I know that I could have used that kind of assistance.

I love to get involved with the community by doing programs that promote literacy and education.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

For me, the most important and distinguishing property of new media is interactivity. But how many people can actually create interactive games, animations, or simulations? Not very many. So, in my mind, very few people are truly literate with new media.

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

I don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.