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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #literacy
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. ↗
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ↗
#bibliophiles #book-lovers #willful-ignorance #zealotry #enemy
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. ↗
The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? ↗
#information #information-literacy #students #teaching #change
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. ↗
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 different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.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 different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. ↗
#education #life-lessons #literacy #literate-culture #reading
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry. ↗