Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at...

Even if you have to die tomorrow; die as a literate.

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane...

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him, and science gives today the only...

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need...

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.

Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around them,...

There’s nothing more important than literary merit, and that’s why I not only created an award—the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award—but I nominated myself as the first recipient. You can’t always wait for...

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it’s socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

This is the book, then , and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your child–even though you yourself do not understand what is written down and...

Books on the bookshelvesAnd stacked on the floorBooks kept in basketsAnd propped by the doorBooks in neat pilesAnd in disarrayBooks tucked in closetsAnd books on displayBooks filling cranniesAnd books packed in nooksBooks massed in windowsAnd...

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news...

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child’s Future.

If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life… The rift is… between “folk” culture, where the unschooled can...

If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.

He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea – for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which...

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality.

SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets – all from words printed on a page…. How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages...

We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance… What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a...

It’s our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child’s...

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy.

Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of...

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass...

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways....

Parents often ask – how do I get my child interested in books and reading? One tried and true way that my late husband and I used was paying them to read. For each book...

I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning.

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

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

Art is literacy of the heart.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

Shockingly, too many of our children don’t read to grade level. Studies show that if a child does not read to grade level by third grade, that child is likely to drop out of school....

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across...

To put an arrogant ‘famous’ writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.