Quotes About Literacy

Thomas Wazhashk: I am not sure what study the information about our advancement, financially speaking, was based on. But I will tell you it was faulty. Most of our people live on dirt floors, no electricity, no plumbing. I haul my own water like most Indians in this room. I consider myself advanced only because I read and write. Should I not be an Indian person because I read and write?

Punctuation is no more a class issue than the air we breathe.

by tragic historical coincidence a period of abysmal under-educating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people who don't know their apostrophe from their elbow are positively invited to disseminate their writings to anyone on the planet stupid enough to double-click and scroll.

Cissy could read big thick books, not just The Cat In The Hat.

A nação não sabe ler. Há só 30% dos indivíduos residentes neste país que podem ler; desses uns 9% não leem letra de mão. 70% jazem em profunda ignorância

If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.

But let's not forget that if you are reading this book, then you are a reader and that means you've probably never had to think of all the shortcuts and strategies and bypasses that exist to get around reading

miles down the mountain in the morning and then making the long journey back up the hill at night. Life was hard. The townsfolk were barely literate and desperately poor and without much hope for economic betterment until word reached Roseto at the end

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art.

Mom is the head librarian at the local public library. This has been a big boon to Janine, who needs books the way most people need food and water.

Not learning how to read is not another style of literacy, and not learning to see others as ends in themselves is not another style of ethics. It is a failure of ethics.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.

Grammar, which is the art of using words properly, comprises four parts: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.