Quotes About Literacy

If you're old enough to understand all the words, he always said, you're old enough to read it.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Every letter in the alphabet in that sentence.

Elsa knew that a library card—a thing they'd taken for granted all of their lives—meant there was still a future.

Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

a place where children did not write and read was a woeful place, indeed.

Content written at the eighth-grade level can be read and understood by 80 percent of Americans.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

I would suggest that true literacy—the kind that matters—brings about clearer thinking and informed action. Thus, true biblical literacy involves an interaction with the Bible that changes the way one thinks and acts, and that kind of interaction takes time.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading

I reads every chance I can gets.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

It is important to remember that, in strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man.

Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk. What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad, Eve decided.

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

I write like a two-year-old, and I can't spell.

There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from 'True Romance' magazine.