“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Just a little every day That's the way Children learn to read and write Bit by bit and mite by mite. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter.… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
There weren't any schools in my village, so I learnt to read and write from my mother. I played in the fields,… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
“I wanted for that other place. I wanted for the part of the world where I believed there existed a fundamental kind… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“gon be hard from here on, Handful. Since that day a year past, I’d got myself a friend in Miss Sarah and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“There would be a day—there must be a day—when he would come back to Gramarye with a new Round Table which had… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Learning to read and write makes little sense if you don't understand what you're reading and writing about. While we may have… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Children...wake up and find themselves here, discover themselves to have been here all along; is this sad? They wake like sleepwalkers, in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than… — Lilian Katz Copy Share Image
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children… — William Labov Copy Share Image
MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual… — Sam Wineburg Copy Share Image
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I see it as this: I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and… — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is… — Erica Brown Copy Share Image
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed with dyslexia in third grade and had gone to a special school for it and then left the school.… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“I can read and write in nine different languages, two of which are dead ones and two fictional ones. I can solve… — J.C. Mells Copy Share Image
If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
