Quotes About Literacy

Elementarze to wst?p do lektury ksi??ek. Ksi??ki s? zagro?eniem dla cnoty. A cnota jest tym wi?ksza im wi?ksza jest niewiedza.

Few children learn to love books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful written word; someone has to lead the way.

Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just read every book or even a good chunk of the Truly Important Ones, you would know what you needed to know about real life. And you could be a part of it. Naturally, I got a lot of things wrong.

School is where children learn that they have to read. Home is where kids learn to read because they want to. It's where they learn to love to read.

According to studies that measure the likelihood of a child growing up to be a reader, the most important factor is not how well reading was taught in the child's school, nor the number of hours spent reading aloud to the child. Regardless of the parents' income level or education, the statistic most highly correlated to literacy is the number of books present in the home.

alternately on his thickly moustached face; he spoke with the unassailable confidence that a college-education in the midst of general illiteracy gives one.

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

Our role is to encourage, not discourage, reading.

Seriously, if you really, truly don't understand basic terminology (which was at least half my problem with the adult-level "beginner" books), the children's section is the place to go.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

We support all actions that lead to the joy, the fun, the reward, the challenge, and the adventure of reading.

But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.

When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with the wisdom of his remarks. At one dinner, the question was raised, "What human condition deserves the most pity?" Each of the guests responded, but the answer that is still remembered is Benjamin Franklins's: "A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

With the insight that genuine literacy involves "reading the word and the world," renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to a broader understanding of the term, one that moves from a strict decoding and reproducing of language into issues of economics, health, and sustainable development

Talvez seja este o sentido mais exato da alfabetização: aprender a escrever a sua vida como autor e como testemunha de sua história, isto é, biografar-se, existenciar-se, historicizar-se.

Teenagers want to read - if we let them.

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.

In the World According to Celine and Pete the very best part of every town was the library.

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”