Quotes About Literacy

You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who's reading aloud—it's the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent and every adult caring for a child read aloud three stories a day to the children in their lives ,we would probably wipe out illiteracy in one generation" Reading Magic Mem Fox

Read-aloud sessions are times when parents and children fall in love with each other. (Reading Magic)

Whatever happens in the world of school, continuing to read aloud to our children at home should solve most reading problems and will always be a lifeline to their happiness, their literacy, and their future. (Reading Magic)

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.

he has never learned the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist.

Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total television.

The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

Not everyone has to be literate, there are some great reasons for resisting language, and one of them is love.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read." —MARK TWAIN

My schooldays coincided with a complete ban on teaching the alphabet, and I have a terrible time finding anything in the telephone directory.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

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Literacy, the most empowering achievement of our civili- zation, is to be replaced by a vague and ill-defined screen savvy. The paper book, the tool that built modernity, is to be phased out in favor of fractured, unfixed information. All in the name of progress.

Charlemagne's educational and cultural campaign was momentous for its preservation of the classical past and for its effects on medieval society. The level of literacy never again sank as low as it had in pre-Carolingian times.