Literacy Programs Quotes

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

We decided … to put an end to illiteracy, and each of the factory representatives made lists of all illiterates at his own factory, found premises for schools, brought pressure to bear on the factory management and raised funds. A superintendent from amongst the workers was appointed to each school for illiterates, and he saw to it that everything necessary was provided - blackboards, chalk, ABC books; others were appointed to ensure that instruction was given correctly and to hear what the workers had to say about the schools. We gave instructions to the superintendents and heard their reports.

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

Illiterates have to dictate.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

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

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

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

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.