Quotes About Literacy

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

Real Divas Read!

A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.

If you had a better vocabulary, perhaps you wouldn't be failing English!

Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the last thing they read.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.

Gutenberg made printed books affordable, which kicked off an increase in literacy, which created a market for spectacles, which led to work on lenses that in turn resulted in the invention of microscopes and telescopes, which unleashed the discovery that the earth went round the sun.

On one of these gatherings, a guest speaker informed us that in 30 years, no one in America except the homeschoolers would know how to read or write. 

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.

Jefferson, who spent his life collecting books, many of which he donated to the Library of Congress, boasted that America was the only country whose farmers read Homer. "A native of America who cannot read or write," said John Adams, "is as rare an appearance . . . as a Comet or an Earthquake.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learnings possible.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.

But I did find refuge in books. The reading habit was my mother's doing, instilled early in my childhood—her go-to move anytime I complained of boredom, or when she couldn't afford to send me to the international school in Indonesia, or when I had to accompany her to the office because she didn't have a babysitter. Go read a book, she would say. Then come back and tell me something you learned.

An informed public depends upon literacy and language: its good use, conception, comprehension and incorruptibility.