Literacy Quotes

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

Art is literacy of the heart

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

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

Creativity is the new literacy

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

Love of books is the best of all.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

I think literacy is everything.

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over 45%, but in many rural areas we work it is about 10-15%, and for girls even lower.

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