Barack Obama Quotes

I think literacy is everything.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I like to read and understand.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

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

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

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

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

A library implies an act of faith.

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