Quotes About Literacy

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

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.

Reading is not optional.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

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