Quotes About Literacy

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

That girl can barely spell her name.

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabetsoup?

I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)

Yet it was . . . Asahel who knew those books secretly by heart, and read, as laboriously as he did everything else, any scrap of paper with printing on it, poring hungrily over the magic of words.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

You have been around since scaly things crawled out of the muck, would it have killed you to read a book?

The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

When I was your age, television was called books.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

I knew I could trust her. She was a librarian, after all. It was their job to save lives with books.

Louis Johnson still don't really believe I can read, which might be why he keep showing me grocery list upside down and saying it's a classified document.