Top 1200 Reading And Literacy Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum.

The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

Magazine reading appears to promote more reading.

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.

I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'

It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here. It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined.

Reading something from beginning to end. That is reading with love.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

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

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an eclectic reading list.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

With plays that require any kind of reading program, I'm reading for a couple of years before using the material.

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

I will say the most raw joy I've experienced reading has probably come from the times I've been reading with my little boys.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

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

The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.

I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room.

I suppose I could read more fiction, but I haven't moved in that direction. I'd like more time even though I spend six hours a day reading. People say their eyes get tired, but I've never experienced that. In college I used to read 10 hours a day. My wife says I'm obsessive compulsive. She might have a point because when I was an undergrad student we had the required reading list and the suggested reading list. I always read all the suggested reading too.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play.

I have always had someone in my life that I consider my reading mentor because I come from a family where reading was not emphasized or even approved of.

Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the duvet. That love of reading stayed with me.