Quotes About Literacy

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

I am not a fan of books.

Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

Reading promotes confident.

Braille is knowledge, and knowledge is power.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

The adults in the room have to be skilled and literate by those 21st-century standards the NCTE is touting. And they have to exhibit the dispositions that will sustain their learning: persistence, empathy, passion, sharing, collaboration, creativity, and curiosity.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter--they wanted books for their children. (quoting his mother)

all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.