Quotes About Literacy

In Florence, more than anywhere else, large numbers of people could read and write, as many as seven in every ten adults. The literacy levels of other European cities, by contrast, languished at less than 25 percent.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

From productive conversations with professional writers and editors. I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third surprised me: talking about how reading and writing work. Many of the tools came from great talk about the construction of stories and the distillation of meaning.

I once learned that only three behaviors set literate people apart. The first two are obvious: reading and writing; but the third surprised me: talking about how reading and writing work.

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond.

No fundo, o mal todo está nessa mania de ler, estudar, escrever; esse negócio de intelectual é sempre maroto. Por que não promover uma grande campanha nacional de analfabetização?

Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Reading is fundamental.

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against an interchange of instructions and acquiescences, in which reference to the printed word is not made or in which the implications of something read do not occur.

Ya? iskelesi civar?ndaki ma?azas?ndan geç vakit yorgun ve arg?n dönen Galip amca, ev halk? ile konu?mak itiyad?n? senelerden beri kaybetmi?ti. Yeme?i yer yemez eline gazeteyi al?r, kendisini k?sa zamanda ümmilikten okur yazarl??a ç?karan iri Latin harflerini büyük bir sab?rla hecelemeye ba?lard?.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Becka said that spelling was not reading. Reading, she said, was when you could hear the words as if they were a song.

Anyone literate can take an implement in hand and make marks on a flat surface. Being a writer, however, seems to be a socially acknowledged role, and one that carries some sort of weight or impressive significance - we hear a capital W on Writer.

Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought of opening a novel before. There's nothing like a shovelful of dirt to encourage literacy.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Everybody should have a librarian.

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.