Quotes About Literacy

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

The democracy of the intellect comes from the printed book…

40% of people who graduate college never read a book again. If you are in the remaining 60% you are 1000× ahead of everyone else.

the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: "Our attention cannot be bought and sold in a library." As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United States, it gives physical form to the principle that public access to knowledge is the foundation of democracy [What Libraries Can (Still) Do, The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.

When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, he simply used the breviary.

If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Unfortunately, a lot of kids don't read anymore. I don't know what we can do about that.

Fortunately for me, or unfortunately, they made me an editor of the Parish Prison Pelican. I could read and write, and I had a way with words.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

Children typically are not screened for dyslexia, which means it's not until fourth grade that it's detected, at which point they have to take a standardized test, and they can't read. I mean, they literally cannot read.

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.