“ With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly. The Bureau Chiefs
“ Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of h… L.R. Knost
“ Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs. Alan Gibson
“ To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around t… T.K. Naliaka
“ These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and… Mike Schmoker
“ I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people. Donalyn Miller
“ Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the be… T.K. Naliaka
“ We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated. We became cognitive cyborgs as s… Ted Chiang
“ We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. Bryant McGill
“ [T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. David Foster Wallace
“ Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm… Nicholas Carr
“ About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life"—and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it! Timothy Beal
“ Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, s… Charles Babbage
“ We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture… Nick Joaquín
“ Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details? Tina Fey
“ Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. Vera Nazarian
“ African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated. Lailah Gifty Akita
