Quotes About Literacy

The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.

To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war-budget and a paltry budget of education?

To learn to read is to light a fire;

The love of books, of reading. There is nothing a librarian likes better than sharing her love of words with a child.

He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.

There's something almost miraculous about seeing a child's eyes light up when you hand him a book that intrigues him. I've always thought that it's those children—the ones who realize that books are magic—who will have the brightest lives.

And to librarians and booksellers everywhere, who ensure that the books with the power to change lives find their way into the hands of the people who need them most.

Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

Books matter because kids matter and books make our kids better than we are.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

If Russians knew how to read they would write me off.

John Waters. He said we need to make books cool again. So if you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

Risk literacy is the basic knowledge required to deal with a modern technological society. The breakneck speed of technological innovation will make risk literacy as indispensable in the twenty-first century as reading and writing were in previous centuries. Without it, you jeopardize your health and money, or may be manipulated into unrealistic fears and hopes.

Wenn man mündige Bürger haben will, muss man ihnen drei Dinge beibringen: Lesen, Schreiben und – statistisches Denken.

Vorrei che tutti leggessero, non per diventare letterati o poeti, ma perché nessuno sia più schiavo.

The ability to read is a prerequisite of baking.

Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?

Also, despite the belief of population experts that uneducated women wouldn't use birth control, these women knew very well when their own bodies were suffering from too many pregnancies and births. That's why as prime minister, Indira Gandhi took on the controversy of creating the first national family planning program. Her early journeys in those women-only cars had taught her that ordinary women would use it, even if in secret, and literacy had little to do with it.

I hope the day will come when everyone can have books that tell the truth.

O verdadeiro analfabetismo é a falta de curiosidade; a curiosidade é a essência da cultura.

In Sweden they have a very different approach. There, preschool children are encouraged to play and relax without any structured learning for the first six years of their lives. They go for nature walks every day, even in the bitter Scandinavian winter. They are not taught to read until they are seven years of age, yet by the age of ten, Swedish children consistently lead European literacy rankings.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.