Nadezhda Krupskaya Quotes

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

The want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Teachers are important in this world.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

I want to create my own charity, getting inner-city kids to read more. And I want to produce my own films.

Teaching has always been a very important part of my life. It is one of the ways I contribute to society. It is also a source of energy and insight.

I'm not going to be a coach or a director - they are not roles that I would like.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Illiterates have to dictate.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.