Quotes About Literacy

Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

I am not afraid of death threats, but I am appalled that so many people are capable of so much wrong spelling and fractured grammar!

What do you do with the kid who can't read?... You find a pay phone as fast as you can and rectify your idiotic mistake.

No sooner have you achieved literacy and all other resources that cities require, then there again, after the usual numbers of years, comes the heavenly flood. It sweeps upon you like a plague and leaves only your illiterate and uncultured people behind. You become infants all over again, as it were, completely unfamiliar with anything there was in ancient times, whether here or in your own region.

Library rules the world, son.

From the time I was a baby, my mom took me to the library at least once a week. Librarians were like Mary Poppins to me. They always knew how to match a book to my mood or to whatever I was going through at the time. I could always find peace in books.

Read the newspaper, Aaron's father liked to say, you'll grow to be an educated man.

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

One of the happiest days of my life was when my mother wrote a note to the public librarians saying 'Let her check out anything she wants'...I'd read everything we had at home by the time I was ten. So I read my way through the Flagstaff Public Library.

Un libro —cualquier libro— tenía un significado que iba mucho más allá de su contenido para un hombre que hubiera vivido en un tiempo en el que se tenía muy poco acceso a la palabra escrita

We've got to dumb America up again.

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

Tengo un librito, mucho más breve que los de Aristóteles y Ovidio, en el que están contenidas todas las ciencias y cualquiera puede, con poquísimo estudio, formarse de él una idea perfecta: es el alfabeto;