«Literacy»

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Kofi Annan

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Los Angeles Times

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Steven Pinker

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Tomie dePaola

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

Paul Bamikole

Literacy isn’t just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It’s about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.

(Pop Culture Magick)

Taylor Ellwood

The French word ’Alphabetisme’ may be a better term to remind us that literacy is simply about mastering the reading, writing and articulation of the alphabet, considered historically as a human ’invention’ to produce a standardized and retrievable physical record of speech.

T.K. Naliaka

To put an arrogant ’famous’ writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Literacy is the jump-off point from which all of life’s successes take flight.

Lauri Fortino

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

Frederick Douglass

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Rumer Godden