Quotes About Literacy

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

I'm a great believer in anything that gets anyone reading

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

It is characteristic of the average mind often to question what it hears, but to believe wholeheartedly what it reads.

Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.

Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading.

Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks of the later reading circuit.

Put in more sobering terms, only one-third of twenty-first-century American children now read with sufficient understanding and speed at the exact age when their future learning depends on it. The fourth grade represents a Maginot Line between learning to read and learning to use reading to think and learn. More disturbing altogether, close to half

The Bureaus of Prisons in states across America know this well; many of them project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics.

inflexible muteness of written words doomed the dialogic process Socrates saw as the heart of education.

Less happily, however, we are beginning to observe the direct and indirect influence of the digital word-spotting, text-grazing reading patterns of contemporary readers—how things are read—on how texts are being written. When publishers are forced to consider the needs

Shared attention, as Charles Taylor wrote, is the beginning of the great dance of language that joins one generation to the next, not forced attention. Knowing research about the development of literacy is a very good thing; knowing what to attend to in one's own child overrides everything I can ever say—or write—about any medium or any approach. There are so many things we all have

Reading is the best cure for ignorance.

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

It is important to note that going through the motions of answering questions is not critical literacy; rather, critical literacy involves the reader's understanding of the author's intent, bias, and purpose for writing.

Critical literacy focuses on issues of power and promotes reflection, transformation, and action.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

When I learned to read, it changed everything.

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god.