Quotes About Literacy

with commerce and industry had come literacy for Europe's new urban middle class.

El comunismo, el anarquismo y el fascismo penetran en un pueblo que lleva siglos queriendo ajustar cuentas consigo mismo... Y que, en su mayor parte, apenas sabe leer.

Lo otro fue que hay quien piensa, equivocadamente, que la revolución consiste en que muchos que no saben leer ni escribir se adueñen de las propiedades de los pocos que sí saben leer y escribir.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men, government employees and farmers.

Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.

The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I'm a lousy reader.

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

I'm not really a big reader.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.