Quotes About Literacy

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists.

Americans don't read very much.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

I mean, does anybody read anymore?

Mass television-viewing had some rather less desirable effects on Americans as well. Graphs for those years show a clear change of direction: Americans read fewer books, did less

Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. Now that is gone, and the youngsters have their glazed eyes fixed on the television tube. The result is clear. True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily dumbing down.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Puedo anotar mis recuerdos y pensamientos con tinta y papel gracias al clérigo González de Marmolejo, quien se dio tiempo, entre su trabajo de evangelizar salvajes y consolar cristianos, para enseñarme a leer. Entonces era capellán, pero llegó a ser el primer obispo de Chile y también el hombre más rico de este reino, como contaré más adelante.

A high school teacher for many years, Carme thought education was as important as bread, and that everyone who could read and write had a duty to teach those abilities to others.

con sus ahorros le pagó veinte pesos a un cura para que le enseñara a leer y escribir y con los tres que le sobraron se compró un diccionario. Lo revisó desde la A hasta la Z y luego lo lanzó al mar, porque no era su intención estafar a los clientes con palabras envasadas.

Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

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

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.