Quotes About Literacy

For many enslaved Africans, the Bible only became an avenue of resistance because it was one of the few books available to Black folks in a white, Christian-dominated society that prohibited Black literacy. Reading the Bible and applying its lessons of redemptive suffering, salvation, and struggle aided African Americans in their revolutionary fight against the "contradictions" of chattel slavery in a so-called democratic nation.

The Acadians may not have been literate, but they were neither uncultured nor unsophisticated.

Leopardi aveva ragione: gli Italiani sono alla pari dei popoli più progrediti tranne che per due aspetti fondamentali: l'alfabetizzazione e una totale confusione delle idee

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them.

I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

Many working men in our culture can barely read or write. Imagine if time away from work could be spent in exciting literacy programs for poor and working-class men. Imagine a wage offered for this work of self-development. When patriarchy no longer rules the day, it will be possible for men to view themselves holistically, to see work as part of life, not their whole existence.

revolutionary feminist thinking was most accepted and embraced in academic circles. In those circles the production of revolutionary feminist theory progressed, but more often than not that theory was not made available to the public. It became and remains a privileged discourse available to those among us who are highly literate, well-educated, and usually materially privileged.

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read. And

the doors of the world are open to dose who can read.

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.

if you can read, you can learn just about anything.

Certe persone desidererebbero che i loro figli leggessero di più. Io vorrei che tu leggessi di meno.

In the first place, there is no point whatever in being able to spell anything. Shakespeare and Milton could not spell; Marie Corelli and Alfred Austen could. Spelling is thought desirable partly for snobbish reasons, as an easy way of distinguishing the "educated" from the "uneducated"; partly, like correct clothes, as a part of herd domination; partly because the devotee of natural law feels pain in the spectacle of any sphere in which individual liberty remains.

As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.

I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

In 100 years, we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching remedial English in college.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

To receive many blessings, read to your children from the womb to the tomb.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.