Quotes About Literacy

reading was the cornerstone of self-esteem, success, and even a simple pleasure that was lifelong. She

I love libraries and am their huge supporter, speaking at them and raising funds whenever I can.

Books center us, heal us, and connect us, and I believe that reading is fundamental to democracy.

That I had been shallow, stubborn, and selfish did not alter the gravity and stupidity of what I had done. I had made the greatest mistake for a woman literate in nu shu: I had not considered texture, context, and shades of meaning.

eight books every week from the time she was two—she had taken more than four thousand books out of that library.

Back at home, days later, feel cranky and tired. Sit on the couch and tell him he's stupid. That you bet he doesn't know who Coriolanus is. That since you moved in you've noticed he rarely reads. He will give you a hurt, hungry-to-learn look, with his James Cagney eyes. He will try to kiss you. Turn your head. Feel suffocated. (from How)

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

She is fond of books and it has turned her brain.

Tyndale once told a Catholic antagonist: "I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, before many years I will make sure that a boy who drives the plough knows more of the Scriptures than you do.

Soy mujer y escribo. Soy plebeya y sé leer. Nací sierva y soy libre.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

Those women who could read were revered and feared, for they were the most skilled in love magic.

The real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplifying history and writing it down (or reciting it) for the old folks. With helping illiterates fill out a food-stamps form - for they must eat, revolution or not.

But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.

I went to school in Hooks, Texas, where most people can't even read the name stitched over their own pocket.

LIBRARIES: WHERE SHHH HAPPENS.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Access to useful information also was determined by literacy and the availability of reading material. It is now widely agreed at least for Britain that increases in literacy were relatively modest during the Industrial Revolution. Yet literacy is not particularly useful unless people actually read, and for the purposes of technological change it also matters how much and what people read.

The home library of an A was more likely to have at least 500 books.