179 Quotes About Literacy

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

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 cannot sound the words properly. You must do this that the child will grow up knowing of what is great---knowing that these tenements of Williamsburg are not the whole world.

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

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

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

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

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.