19th century Quote by Robert Hass

The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read…

— Oliver DeMille

“Alongside the wide participation in everyday reading of newspapers and magazines, the era of 'mass reading' of books that characterised the period from the…

— Tony Bennett

Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

— Sylvia Plath

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up…

— Jill Lepore

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I…

— Adora Svitak

“Our own lives are filled with experiences and beliefs that are peculiar to our culture, and would seem bizarre to anyone outside it. We…

— Darren Oldridge

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England,…

— Robert Hass

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me,…

— Chath Piersath

The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to…

— Robert Hass