4.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield
7.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates
9.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
Alberto Moravia
10.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
Kate DiCamillo
11.
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
LeVar Burton
13.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
Rumer Godden
14.
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
15.
It is hard to learn when we think we know something.
Peter Block
17.
Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.
Bill Blass
18.
Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.
Pam Allyn
19.
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould
20.
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
Amartya Sen
21.
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
Bill Drayton
22.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt Taibbi
23.
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
Kofi Annan
24.
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
Barack Obama
25.
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.
Jerome Bruner
26.
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
Margaret Atwood
27.
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
Mark Steyn
28.
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.
Stephen D. Krashen
33.
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
John Dewey
34.
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln
35.
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
37.
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
Tom Lehrer
38.
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.
Kofi Annan
39.
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Alan Kay
40.
Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.
Michael Jackson
42.
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.
Donald E. Westlake
43.
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.
Chris Hadfield
44.
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Marshall McLuhan
45.
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
Philip Kitcher
46.
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.
George Steiner
47.
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
Koichiro Matsuura