Literacy Quotes

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." "I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot." "One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world" "He who opens a school door, closes a prison" "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark" "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" "Learn to love to read" "Books and pens are the weapons that defeat terrorism" "The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write" "Once you learn to read you will be forever free" "Don't just teach your children to read, teach them to question what they read" "I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage." "The book you don't read won't help" "You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child." "For the sake of knowledge and a better-informed public, it is necessary to celebrate a cult of the book, even and especially in these times of the book's accelerated commodification." "You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot." "Without libraries what have we?" "A person who does not read is no better than one who cannot"