Quotes About Literacy

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Education, education, education

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

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

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

To Succeed You Must Read

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

A University degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. You wrote me 'good morning' and I read it as 'I love you'.

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card.

Having fun is easy when you have a library cards!

Even when the libraries had been full of books,

the king insisted, there was nobody able to read them, such had been the decline in literacy.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared to what we spend on our horses?

Literacy is vital to democracy. For if the governed can neither understand their leaders nor distinguish truth from lies, then a democracy descends into oligarchy, a government by and for the elite few.