Quotes About Literacy

We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.

Texts are teachers.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. —Stephen King

One can never have too many librarian friends.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

She asked her parents to buy him the books she'd been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad. "What's the point of buying books for someone who can't read?" her parents asked, legitimately enough, and so she checked them out of her school library and read them to Rahul herself.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

I don't believe there are 'struggling' readers, 'advanced' readers, or 'non' readers.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.

The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.

I studied in Kerala, so learnt to read and write Malayalam.

There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

With luck, you were read aloud to as a child.

Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.