Juan Enriquez Quotes

Reading is more important than writing.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

If more people could read, write, and comprehend, we could be much closer to solving so many of the other problems our country faces today.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

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.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

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

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

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.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

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

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.

I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common.

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.