Quotes About Literacy

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Even if she could not attend school, she was determined not to be outdone in reading books.

Más tarde se habría de reír al leer esta ingenua afirmación suya, pues habría de descubrir que un pueblo que sabe leer y escribir constituye todavía mejor clientela para los aventureros y farsantes políticos. La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.

it's easier for me to appreciate the benefits of literacy and harder to recognize everything it has cost us.

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.

The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

Oh no, honey, I can't read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.