Quotes About Literacy

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

For me, reading begins at home.

We need to START buying our KIDS more ($00.50) BOOKS and less ($50.00) Video-Games

Great Books Reader is a useful first handbook for facilitating one important virtue: being well-read. Being well-read is not sufficient, and it isn't the highest virtue to which we can strive, but it is both necessary and practical. We are, after all, people of a Great Book; no Christian leader ought to choose illiteracy or intentionally fail to develop the intellectual skills needed to read well.

Word of God" or to treat the words of the Bible as if they were words spoken by the mouth of God is to me not just irresponsible, it is also to be illiterate.

We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! Don't sleep with people who don't read!

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

We told them I was home-schooled, raised by feral librarians.

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.

Emilie Buchwald quotes Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents

I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!

You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

I can read and write in Hindi.