It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
“The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
“I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out… — Dolly Parton 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
“You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to… — Francis Ford Coppola 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
“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
Love fanfic or hate it, it's getting thousands of people to read and write who otherwise would not have. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.” — Jessica E. Larsen Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
