Quotes About Literacy

I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Kids are on their keyboards so much, between their smartphones and laptops, no one writes anything anymore. It's atrocious.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

If getting young people computer-literate through putting school systems online is a no-brainer, at least in retrospect, getting older people and those in rural areas online can be a tougher nut to crack.

When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

Fundamentally, the solution to economic insecurity is economic prosperity - an achievable goal. But for anyone who has grown up without financial security, there's a shadow that lies over even those who move towards independence: lack of financial literacy.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Never trust anybody with only one book.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.