Quotes about Literacy

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.

The Indian himself must be the answer—he must learn the Scriptures, be taught, and in turn teach his own people. To this end Pete and Jim reopened the missionary school at Shandia that Dr. Tidmarsh had been forced to close. Here in a one-room schoolhouse the youngsters of the community were taught to read and write so that ultimately they could read the Scriptures for themselves.

Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.