Quotes About Literacy

Among skilled craftsmen—a category that included John Shakespeare—some 60 percent could read, a clearly respectable proportion.

We have now reached a level in which many people are not merely unacquainted with the fundamentals of punctuation, but don't evidently realize that there are fundamentals.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future. --Bill Gates (1955-)

Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights.

Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.

No leer es dar la espalda a las mentes más sabias.

You want undergraduates who can write, think, and read? Stop pretending that writing can be taught across the curriculum by geologists and physicists who wouldn't recognize a dependent clause if it bit them on the ass.

A nation that reads more is a nation that can do more. - Kailin Gow

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.'

The Internet, and all the jobs that come with it, continues to expand, and this makes digital literacy a crucial part of every girls' education.

But there is, alas, no doubt that we are becoming a vocabulary-deprived nation—nay, planet. Words have been dropping off all through this century, but the loss increased radically in the sixties with the immorality of "limited vocabulary.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book

Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

For a population 98 percent illiterate, there is, however, an enormous amount of literature written about them.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

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.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling abstract ideas, an understanding of a multiplicity of viewpoint and the complexity and diversity of human interaction that comes through reading widely and often.

What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it - but most schools follow it. This matrix determined what children have to study and when.

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!