Top 1200 Reading And Literacy Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

I love to get involved with the community by doing programs that promote literacy and education.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Because reading is a way of putting yourself in someone else's experience, especially reading fiction.

The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.

Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

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

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Don't neglect your spiritual reading. - Reading has made many saints.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy.

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

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

Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.