Quotes About Literacy

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." —Mark Twain

As the American Library Association presciently concluded in their 1989 report Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, students must be taught to play an active role in knowing, identifying, finding, evaluating, organizing, and using information.

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

In fact, an alarming percentage of deaf children graduate high school with a third-grade reading ability.

A conservative survey once showed that the average deaf high school graduate has a third-grade reading ability.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days? No, I answer. They teach us to use spell-check.

Forty-two percent of college graduates never read a book after college.

Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.