How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.
On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.
(n.) State of being literate.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose...
SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.
Books are great meals for the mind!
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.
I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for...
My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.
Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in d...
No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.
Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?
Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act.
Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
For my present purpose I require a word which shall embrace both the Sub-Creative Art in itself, and a quality of strangeness and wonder in the Expression, derived from the Image: a quality essential...
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
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, an essential complement to investments in...
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
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