Literacy Quotes - Page 2

• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

  Katherine Paterson

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

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• For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

  Kofi Annan

  Full Potential, Dams, Basic Education

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

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• Art is literacy of the heart

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Heart, Art Is

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• To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  A.C. Grayling

  Reading, Views, Ideas

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• There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

  Matt Taibbi

  Slave, Reason, Crime

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• Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Power

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• If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

  Danny Glover

  Education, Children, Creativity

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Reading, Learning

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• To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

  Alan Greenspan

  Success, Education, Business

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• Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

  Hugh Mackay

  Growing Up, Fall, Skills

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• One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Education, Children, Tests

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• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Pleasure

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Never Quit, Quitting, Assumption

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• If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, Health, Opportunity

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• You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Why Palin doesn't need National Grammar Day" by Robert Lane Greene, www.cnn.com. March 5, 2011.

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• A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

  Robert McNamara

  Inspiring, Writing, Computer Literacy

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book”, p.356

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Education, Ignorance, Thinking

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

  David Petersen

  Leap

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• To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

  Munshi Premchand

  Success, Education, Learning

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• Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reading, Drug, Gateways

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• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Reading, Library

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