Quotes on Literacy For Children

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Words are the voice of the heart.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.