Quotes About Literacy

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?

Live in the library, for Christ's sake! Don't live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to the library!

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~Ray Bradbury

Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.

Se refería a la posibilidad de quemar libros sin cerillas ni fuego. Porque no hace falta quemar libros si el mundo empieza a llenarse de gente que no lee, que no aprende, que no sabe.

No hace falta quemar libros si el mundo empieza a llenarse de gente que no lee, que no aprende, que no sabe.

I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

The greatest scholar alive hasn't more than four thousand different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half the number. In

By the highway, the Hudson—the library books straining at their delibags, corners poking. Straining my arms, throttling my hands, the numb rewards of literacy.

To read makes our speaking English good.

My new favorite quote is, Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

Though words sometimes puzzled Alma, she never looked up any word in any dictionary; a word was like a pebble to be turned briefly in the hand, and tossed away, with no expectation that it would be encountered again.

Andrew Johnson couldn't read until he was fourteen! He didn't learn to write until after he was married!)

Reading is not optional.

We're suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don't read but, actually, we're condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, 'Take this or you're going to die.' We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Il mal di grammatica si cura con la grammatica, gli errori di ortografia con l'esercizio dell'ortografia, la paura di leggere con la lettura, quella di non capire con l'immersione nel testo, e l'abitudine a non riflettere con il pacato sostegno di una ragione strettamente limitata all'oggetto che ci riguarda, qui e ora, in questa classe, durante quest'ora di lezione, fintanto che ci siamo.

It doesn't matter if you prefer reading James Joyce or "James and the Giant Peach." Those who read more read better.

Someone once said, "Those who don't read are no better off than those who can't read." How true.

The Socratic-Platonic psychê, in other words, is none other than the literate intellect, that part of the self that is born and strengthened in relation to the written letters.