Quotes About Literacy

Mass production of books ended the Church's monopoly on Scripture, as well as on other forms of information. The wider availability of books reduced the cost of literacy and thus multiplied the number of thinkers who were in a position to offer their own opinions on important subjects, particularly theological subjects

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

Perhaps it is not correct to say that she read it, for unfortunately the number of people who actually read magazines, papers or even books is very small indeed.

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?

By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words.

On Oscar Wilde:] If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. [ Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]

Si nadie hubiera aprendido a leer, muy pocos se habrían enamorado Si nadie hubiera aprendido a desnudarse, muy pocas personas estarían enamoradas

because even the alphabet is precious.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?

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

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Nisam kupio posljednji svezak Svjetske enciklopedije. S obzirom da sam izabran za jednog od autora, sada vidim da je Wikipedija posve dobar izvor informacija jer znam kakva je kontrola kvalitete u pravim enciklopedijama. Ali ponekad kad s djecom do?em u knjižnicu ne mogu odoljeti da ne otvorim slovo »V« i pokažem im. To je napisao njihov tata.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The study of women in the American Revolution, based on the extant writings of contemporaries, is beset with dangers. First, because only a fraction of women in those times were literate, we are working with a biased sample. Less than half of the women who left wills could sign their names, and those who left wills came from the more prosperous and presumably more educated portion of the female population

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

Like measles, the reading bug is best caught when you are young.