literacy initiatives Quotes

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

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.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

It's exciting for me to see [Laura Bush] busy and out there enjoying what she's doing. But we always make time to be with each other as well.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

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

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?