Quotes About Literacy

teach them how to read, write, spell, and do arithmetic, all while staying physically fit and being kind to others.

Quizás al final de este siglo se distingan dos clases de hombres, unos formados por la televisión y otros por la lectura

Plito, chicken Gallina, hen Lápiz, pencil y Pluma, pen. Ventana, window Puerta, door Maestra, teacher y Piso, floor.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.

People who don't read are brutes.

You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to "access."--Eva Brann

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.

Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you'll be happy because you have discovered the comfort and joy of reading.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started.

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

There's a wonderful book, Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero, which cites a poll that half of Americans can't name Genesis as the first book of the Bible. This is part of the dumbing down of our culture. One of those books that 50 percent of Americans apparently aren't reading is the Bible, or they would know that Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It's sort of like, "I don't know what Genesis is, but I believe it.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'

Reading has helped motivate me to become a spokesperson for programs like the WrestleMania Reading Challenge. It has motivated me to become more involved in my community and to keep learning new things.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'