Quotes About Literacy

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Ancient Egyptian women had rights under the law. They could own land. Many were literate.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

I would always be embarrassed to read out loud in class because I would transpose words and letters and things.

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.

Lily was no great reader. She could not tell b from d and all the letters quivered on the page as soon as they felt the brush of her gaze; but when her mother read aloud in her gentle voice, the lines settled and she found she could follow the thread after all, mouthing the words silently in time. Sometimes

He's so stupid. Honestly, when he makes alphabet soup it spells out D-U-M-B.

If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of (good) books is the best of all.

I am not gifted. When I read, the words twist twirl across the page. When they settle, it is too late. The class has already moved on. I want to catch words one day. I want to hold them then blow gently, watch them float right out of my hands.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.

Or to put it another way: Should "the people" be raised up through education and literacy so that they were full participants in the Revolutionary experiment? Or should music, writing, painting, and drama be simplified to the point where anyone could understand them?

I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

Few things are as essential as education.