Quotes About Literacy

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country – we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them.

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

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

If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?

We are losing the majority of the new generation. They will not achieve anything close to their potential because of poor reading.

I'm one of few children on the train who can read. Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then taught me how to spell. When we got to New York, she'd make me read to her, anything with words on it—crates and bottles I found in the street.

But what is hard to understand is why the math and science gap launched a massive movement on behalf of girls, and yet a much larger gap in reading, writing, and school engagement created no comparable effort for boys.

Blindur er boklaus madur - Blind is the bookless man.

The general education of the population also gave cause for optimism. In 1900, Germans counted among the most literate people in the world, with literacy rates in the range, of those found in the United States today.

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Yet the bookshelf us also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

To educate the people three things are needed: schools, and schools, and schools.

The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.

A person could skim all the books in a city library and still be more illiterate than a person who studies ten pages of a single good book letter by letter --- in other words, with real accuracy.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

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

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation's educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war.