Literacy Quotes

• Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teacher, Peace, Children

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

  Kofi Annan

  Reading, Bridges, Full Potential

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

  Kofi Annan

  Block, Bridges, Essentials

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

  Carl Sagan

  Reading, Slavery, Path

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• 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.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Brain, Trying

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Reading, Healing

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Doors, Essentials

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Apr 23, 2017

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• Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Luxury, Education And Literacy

  Clinton, William J. (1995). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.1503, Best Books on

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  Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Abigail Adams

  Inspirational, Education, Perseverance

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Book, Forever

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• It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Life, Book, Reading

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

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• Creativity is as important as literacy.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Entrepreneur, Important

  "The Destruction of Democracy and Creativity in Our Schools: Mission Accomplished" by Arnold Dodge, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

  Grace Slick

  Retirement, Reading, Two

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• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivational, Running, Knowledge

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.399, Vintage

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  May, Schizophrenia, Consequence

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.327, University of Toronto Press

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• No one can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Education, Teacher, Knowledge

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• I cannot live without books.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Reading, Beer

  Letter to John Adams, 10 June 1815

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• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Book, Reading

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.

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• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

  B. F. Skinner

  Inspiring, Education, Book

  "B. F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans, p. 73, 1968.

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