Quotes About Literacy

I want to create my own charity, getting inner-city kids to read more. And I want to produce my own films.

I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

Surveys show that a large proportion of veiled women hold progressive views on such matters as gender. For some women, who have come from rural areas to the university and are the first members of their family to advance beyond basic literacy, the assumption of Islamic dress provides continuity and makes their rite of passage to modernity less traumatic than it might otherwise have been.

Although only seven, she'd been reading since she was three, a fact her mother told anyone who would listen. Sarah was a voracious reader, and she'd found friends hiding between the pages of books. For her, the trips to the library meant more than the refreshing burst of air-conditioning. They were life.

To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y'all helped grow up to be writers

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

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.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.