Quotes about Literacy

Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

Those women who could read were revered and feared, for they were the most skilled in love magic.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.