literacy vs education quotes

• Quote of the Day
• Picture Quotes

Education And Literacy Quotes

Standart top banner.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Education is our passport to the future.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... 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.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

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 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.

last adds STANDART BOTTOM BANNER

Send report.

• The author didn't say that
• There is a mistake in the text of this quote
• The quote belongs to another author
• Other error

Top Authors

Get Social with AzQuotes

Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends

SIDE STANDART BANNER

• Javascript and RSS feeds
• WordPress plugin
• ES Version AZQuotes.ES
• Submit Quotes
• Privacy Policy

Login with your account

Create account, find your account.

PARENTS, BOOST YOUR WHOLE BILINGUAL JOURNEY, FOR YEARS TO COME, IN JUST 1 DAY!

Get your child speaking the minority language more actively right now!

43 Great Quotes on the Power and Importance of Reading

• September 10, 2013
• 51 Comments

Did you know that September 8 is International Literacy Day? I didn’t, until yesterday, and so I missed the chance to eat some cake. (I’m always looking for an excuse to eat cake.)

A special day to celebrate literacy (and eat cake) is certainly something I support, but I also think that our attention should be squarely on literacy year-round. As a teacher, and now a parent, of bilingual children, books and reading have always been at the heart of my efforts to nurture the minority language.

Reading not only has tremendous power when it comes to fueling the development of all aspects of language ability, its importance to the entirety of a human life in this day and age really can’t be overstated.

To help underscore this point, I’ve assembled 43 favorite quotes on the power and importance of literacy. Cut yourself a big piece of cake and read along with me…

1. A book is a gift you can open again and again. —Garrison Keillor

2. Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. —Kofi Annan

3. Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. —Frederick Douglass

4. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him. —Maya Angelou

5. There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book. —Frank Serafini

6. Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. —Emilie Buchwald

7. One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children. —Carl Sagan

8. You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. —Strickland Gillian

9. Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty.  It should be offered to them as a precious gift. —Kate DiCamillo

10. Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. —Vera Nazarian

11. Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. —Groucho Marx

12. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. —May Ellen Chase

13. To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. —Victor Hugo

14. It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations—something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. —Katherine Patterson

15. When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again. —Rumer Godden

16. We read to know we are not alone. —C.S. Lewis

17. So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. —William James

18. There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. —Jacqueline Kennedy

19. The greatest gift is a passion for reading. —Elizabeth Hardwick

20. There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. —Marcel Proust

21. Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper “One more time” in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. —L.R. Knost

22. Read, read, read. —William Faulkner

Want to learn a lot about children and reading? See this superb post at the site Mom Loves Best…

The Ultimate Reading Guide for Your Child

23. Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team. —Karen Witemeyer

24. Books are a uniquely portable magic. —Stephen King

25. Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. —E.P. Whipple

26. A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.” —Stephen Wright

27. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. —Richard Steele

28. There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. —Jim Fiebig

29. A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic. —Carl Sagan

30. A house without books is like a room without windows. —Horace Mann

31. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. —Louis L’Amour

32. Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. —Tomie dePaola

33. It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can. —Jane Hamilton

34. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. —Anna Quindlen

35. A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —Mark Twain

36. Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. —Art Spiegelman

37. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. —William Godwin

38. Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. —Voltaire

39. Wear the old coat and buy the new book. —Austin Phelps

40. I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. —JK Rowling

41. Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. —Kathleen Norris

42. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. —S.I. Hayakawa

43. I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. —Jorge Luis Borges

51 Responses

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” —A.C. Grayling …is one of my favorite quotes.

I love the list of quotes—how true—we cannot give a greater gift to a child than the ability to read. With teachers in my family I constantly hear that the children who can read come from homes where reading is given prominence. The parents read and they begin reading to their children at the earliest of years with the end result that these children love books and reading. For them it is no onerous educational task to be managed at school. They will seek out books and internet information at their calling.

Leonard, thanks for sharing this great quote. And I agree with your observation 100%. Reading and books are fundamental to a child’s language development, whether a first or a second language. This is why reading aloud, to me, is…

The Secret to Raising a Bilingual Child

Thank you for the list! I wish you could add a couple more because I am making my students know 50 different quotes.

Dear Adam, Thank you for sharing these beautiful quotes. 🙂 Reading is priceless.

Welcome, Vesna! I agree, reading and books should form the very bedrock of our efforts.

Thank you for the quote list. I especially love this quote: “So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. —William James

My co-teacher and I graduated three struggling readers from an after school intervention and we wrote this quote on a chapter book that we bought for them. We are so proud of them because now they are reading above grade level. Reading rocks!

Isabel, congratulations on the good success you’ve had with your students! You’ve helped give them wings!

”A room without books is like a body without a soul” Cicero 😀

Reading is knowledge.

Learning how to read is a treasure

Those who watch TV will always be led by those who read books! The world is divided into 2 groups of people; those who read books and those who do what those who read books say! Just as you feed your phone with charge from a wall socket, so does your brain feed from the books you read! Oxygen is found in air but knowledge is found in books! I just feel that a man with no passion for reading books is just like a little baby with no passion for breast feeding! I wish there was a way I could hammer this into people’s mind!!! We can’t exhaust the benefits thereof!

“Some parents feel that reading a picture book to their child in an animated and child-like way somehow renders them immature and unrefined. Being that the ability to read is the most prized intellectual skill anyone can possess, and if readers really are born on the laps of their parents, then I would say that reading to your child in that way is the most grown-up and sophisticated thing that a parent could do.” – LBC

It is only through reading that we can be freed from the bondage of our ignorance.

Readers are leaders. If the clothes you wear are more expensive than the books you read, then you are not ready for greatness.

Thank you. I found what I was looking for!!! Also you inspired me that there are many people that love to read. “The beauty of life is to read a book and to share that treasure with others.”

Some cool quotes, and I especially like 36. I was a big fan of comics when I was younger, but my love for books didn’t come until I was older, which kind of confirms the truth of quote number 36.

In a tongue in cheek way, I also like:

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” —P.J. O’Rourke

Now this is one great quote about reading!! Love it!

Thanks. This is inspiring, as I did not hesitate to share it with younger ones. Good job here!

What a great discovery! Thank you so much for the site and its invaluable information. The quotes are truly inspiring, motivational and a wake-up call. Really, reading is a sure step out of the ordinary into greatness. Many thanks & God bless.

Anderson, thank you for your kind comment. I wholeheartedly agree with your view of reading.

Thanks a lot for those precious quotes. “Reading is the special key to take you where you want to be.” and “Reading is your first step to travel the world!”

This is a wonderful site. If you don’t read you perish. If you read you control those that don’t read. Those that don’t read will always see readers as a virus.

These are inspiring and enlightening sayings. Wise ones invest at all cost in the development of their souls and mind by buying and reading good books. Though materially rich, he is unwise who invests only in things other than that (good library/reading) which is a refuge from many of the miseries of life.

I love the way you put it. Coming from a society where values seem to be misplaced, I so much agree with your words. However like the campaign of the moment in my country, change begins with you and me. Let’s do what we can to encourage the value of reading.

Excellent ideas and quotations. can u share some ideas regarding elocution of my daughter for topic ‘the value of books’

Suja, your question isn’t quite clear to me, but I think getting a child to feel “the value of books” is directly linked to building a large home library of appealing books and reading aloud on a daily basis .

For much more on the subject of books and reading, please see the many posts within the reading category .

I like these quotes so much. This was inspiring and motivating. Thus reading is essential for a child’s success in life.

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading” and “A house without books is like a room without windows” are more quotes I like.

Thanks for outstanding collection of “reading” quotes. My favorite here is: “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.”

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. —Elizabeth Hardwick”

Thank you for these, Adam. They are beautiful. 🙂

Needing to add some fulfilling quotes to accompany photos of our young nephews, I found exactly what I need here! Thanks!

I am doing research on the benefits of reading to persuade people to read more. These quotations have helped me a lot. Thank you! 🙂

Benjamin Franklin (American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States), once said, “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Absolutely correct. Nice collection of quotes by you about reading and books. A great effort by you worth reading and creditable!

Mandira Bhattacharjee from Kolkata, India

Love these! What about…?

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

My team and I are planning a reading campaign in public schools of one of the northern states in Nigeria. Your resources here have been quite resourceful. They are lifetime literary assets.

Thank you Adam for providing me with the reward I was looking for for my Angolan students who are starting their intensive English course in Italy tomorrow!

Thanks for such inspiring quotes depicting the inherent values of reading. They are gems. Every parent and teacher should share these with their children or students.

“A house without books is like a room without windows.” —Heinrich Mann

This is my favorite quote. That’s why my house has a lot of books. 🙂

From memory:

“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.” – William Ellery Channing

…is that not beautiful?

I taught English to disadvantaged Queensland teenagers for years…one day I told them a personal story about reading. They were mesmerized. I told them more (plenty here – I was the child of an illiterate dairy farmer). At some stage I realized it was as though I was reliving the final scene of the original Mad Max, where the children are gathered round listening to a legend (of Max who saved the world – albeit a very small Australian one!). In this classroom, I realized, the practice of reading was legendary – something performed by people from other times and places, something very separate from their reality. My heart still breaks for them.

Marjorie, thank you for sharing this story, which clearly underscores the power and importance of literacy.

Thanks for these amazing factual quotes about reading.

They do not live that do not read.

Someone brilliant said, “A book is valuable chiefly for its power to inspire.” Wish I knew who it was, so I could give credit where credit is due.

Reading is brain food

Readers are actually great leaders. If the clothes you wear are far more costly than the books you buy, then you are not ready for any form of personal development.

MY best greetings . I am a teacher of English from Tunisia . I was looking for an important quote when I came across this fruitful set of quotes. Really I enjoyed them myself before my pupils. Thankssss for sharing .

Fawzia, thank you for your kind comment! I send my best wishes, to you and your students, from Japan to Tunisia!

This blog is amazing.

Thank you so much for this great post!

Your blog serves as a reminder that we can make a difference through our words and actions.

Comments, please! Cancel reply

Your email address will not be displayed. Required fields are marked *

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Welcome to Bilingual Monkeys!

My Popular Books

Browse the Blog

• Most Recent
• Most Popular
• The Essentials
• Deeper Inspiration
• Creative Ideas
• Useful Downloads
• Great Guest Posts

Didn't find what you're looking for? Search here...

What parents are saying.

Don't Miss My Free Webinar!

Here’s what a parent just like you said after watching it and learning my “secret strategy”…

“Wow! I was so inspired watching the video and I have such great hope that this tool will help with the minority language in our family. I can’t wait to try these things out!”

Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2012~2024 Bilingual Monkeys

Our team is here to help you choose the right program for your life and your goals.

• How to Apply
• Transfer Credits
• Prospective Students & Parents
• Military Admissions

Master’s title

• Master of Science in Cybersecurity

Bachelor's title

• Accelerated Cyber and Information Security Technology
• Cloud Computing
• Cyber and Information Security Technology
• Cybersecurity
• Data Analytics
• Digital Forensics Technology
• Mobile Development
• Software Development
• Web Design and Development

Associate’s title

• Systems Engineering Master's - Mechatronics
• Electronic Systems Engineering Technology
• Electronics Engineering Technology
• Mechanical Engineering Technology
• Mechatronics (ESET)
• Mechatronics
• Computer-Aided Drafting and Design
• Family Nurse Practitioner (MSN)
• Nursing Education (MSN)
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Accelerated BSN)
• Bachelor to BSN Nursing Program (BS to BSN)
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN to BSN)
• Associates Degree in Nursing (ADN)

Diploma title

• Practical Nursing (PN)
• Master's in Healthcare Administration
• Healthcare Administration
• Dental Assistant
• Medical Assisting
• Paramedic (EMT)
• Radiologic Sciences
• Diagnostic Medical Sonography
• Physical Therapist Assistant
• Radiography
• Surgical Technology
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Business Analytics
• Business Management
• Hospitality Management
• IT Management
• Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
• Management Master's - Human Resources Management
• Management Master's - Organizational Leadership
• Human Resources Management
• Project Management
• Crime and Intelligence Analysis
• Criminal Justice
• Digital Forensics
• Homeland Security
• Food Service Management
• Baking and Pastry Arts
• Culinary Arts
• Culinary Nutrition
• Electronic Engineering Technology
• RN to BSN Program
• Master of Business Administration

• Virginia Beach
• Newport News
• Northern Virginia
• Orlando Lake Mary
• San Antonio

About ECPI University

Founded in 1966, ECPI University promotes a student-centered learning environment as well as personal and professional development through education.

• Why Choose ECPI
• Mission & Values
• Message from the President
• Accreditation
• Academic Calendar
• Course Catalog
• Career Services
• Bachelor's
• Associate’s

Find the right degree program for you.

• Health Science
• By Degree Level
• Master's
• Associate's & Diplomas
• By Location
• Information Technology
• Engineering Technology
• Explore All Technology Programs
• Explore Our Nursing Programs
• Health Sciences
• Advanced Clinical
• Explore Our Health Science Programs
• General Business Management
• Master of Human Resources Management
• Master of Organizational Leadership
• Explore Our Business Programs
• Explore Our Criminal Justice Programs
• Explore Our Culinary Arts Programs
• North Carolina
• South Carolina

Tuition and Financial Assistance

At ECPI University, an affordable education is within reach. Financial assistance options are available to help you invest in your future.

• How to Pay for College
• Tuition & Fees
• Scholarships
• VA & Military Benefits
• Employer Partnership Program

50 Great Quotes Illustrate the Power of Education

Celebrating ecpi university’s 50 th anniversary.

There are many reasons to go to college. Just read ECPI University’s quarterly news magazine, eConnect , and you’ll meet countless people, each with their own unique story. Yet, they all have one thing in common: the belief that an education is the vehicle through which we can improve ourselves and open doors. 

Since 1966, ECPI University has been helping people fulfill their personal ambitions. In this, our 50 th anniversary year, we celebrate power of education and its ability to change lives and create lifelong learners.

While college has changed greatly through the ages, the principles of learning have not. With that thought in mind, we commemorate ECPI University’s 50 th anniversary with 50 quotes from some of the world’s greatest minds, each dedicated to the timeless belief that education and perpetual learning should always be humankind’s foremost pursuit.

1. "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." – Alvin Toffler

2. "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education." – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. "Education in the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." – Nelson Mandela

4. "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." – John Dewey

5. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

6. "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." – Aristotle

7. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." – Aristotle

8. "It is better to learn late than never." – Publilius Syrus

9. "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." – Carl Rogers

10. "Education is the movement from darkness to light." – Allan Bloom

11. "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." – Sydney J. Harris

12. "Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know." – Daniel J. Boorstin

13. "Education’s purpose is to replace and empty mind with an open one." – Malcom Forbes

14. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." – Maimonides

15. "You are always a student, never a master. You have keep moving forward." – Conrad Hall

16. "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." – William Butler Yeats

17. "You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." – Clay P. Bedford

18. "Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand." – Chinese proverb

19. "Education cost money, but then so does ignorance." – Claus Moser

20. "What sculpture is to a block of marble education is to the human soul." – Joseph Addison

21. "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?" – Erich Fromm

22. "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." – B.B. King

23. "Education is hanging around until you've caught on." – Robert Lee Frost

24. "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." – Robert Frost

25. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Mahatma Gandhi

26. "You can never be overdressed or overeducated." – Oscar Wilde

27. "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." – C.S. Lewis

28. "Children must be taught how to think, not what to think." – Margaret Mead

29. "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." – Thomas Paine

30. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." – Herbert Spencer

31. "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth." – John F. Kennedy

32. "He that loves reading has everything within his reach." – William Godwin

33. "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." – Anthony J. D'Angelo

34. "The only real failure in life is one not learned from." – Anthony J. D'Angelo

35. "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." – George Washington Carver

36. "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." – Abraham Lincoln

37. "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." – Albert Einstein

38. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." –  Abigail Adams

39. "The mere imparting of information is not education." – Carter G. Woodson

40. "To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." – Edmund Burke

41. "Good questions outrank easy answers." – Paul Samuelson

42. "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." – Anatole France

43. "Change is the end result of all true learning." – Leo Buscaglia

44. "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army." – Edward Everett

45. "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." – Gilbert K. Chesterton

46. "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." – Victor Hugo

47. "Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." – Marcus Tullius Cicero

48. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." – Kofi Annan

49. "There is no greater education than one that is self-driven." – Neil deGrasse Tyson

50. "Education is freedom." – Paulo Freire

Are you inspired? Is there a field you’ve always wanted to explore but didn’t think it was possible? It’s never too late. Contact ECPI University today, and one of our helpful admissions advisors will be happy to help you explore your options.

It could be the Best Decision You Ever Make !

DISCLAIMER – ECPI University makes no claim, warranty, or guarantee as to actual employability or earning potential to current, past or future students or graduates of any educational program we offer. The ECPI University website is published for informational purposes only. Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information contained on the ECPI.edu domain; however, no warranty of accuracy is made. No contractual rights, either expressed or implied, are created by its content.

For more information about ECPI University or any of our programs click here: http://www.ecpi.edu/ or http://ow.ly/Ca1ya .

View the discussion thread.

31 Quotes About Literacy

• A gift bestowed upon us with grace, let literacy enlighten all, in its embrace. Catherine Pulsifer, Reading Turns On The Light Poems about Literacy
• Literacy is not just about reading words; it's about understanding the worlds they create. Author Unknown Poems About Reading
• Through literacy, books become windows to new worlds. Author Unknown Poems About Books
• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo Poems About Learning

• Through the doors of school, literacy lights the path to lifelong learning Kate Summers Poems About School
• In a world of words, literacy is the key that unlocks the treasury of wisdom. Amber R. Treeman Wisdom Poems
• Being literate opens doors to understanding, connection, and endless possibilities. Author Unknown Opportunity Poems
• Literate minds are sculpted by education's chisel of knowledge. Frederick Sam Lutes Poems About Education
• Literacy is the passport to a life of imagination, discovery, and self-expression. Author Unknown Poems About Imagination

• The library is a sanctuary where literacy and imagination dance together. Sam R. V. Gould Poems About Libraries
• In the story of life, literacy pens our chapters of growth. Author Unknown
• Knowledge is the beacon that lights the path to wisdom, and literacy is the vessel that carries you there. Poems About Knowledge
• For literacy is not bound to fleeting years, but an endless voyage, that bridges hopes and fears. Catherine Pulsifer, Books
• The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page. Rachel Anders
• In the garden of knowledge, literacy is the sunlight that nourishes every bloom. Author Unknown Knowledge Quotes
• Literacy is the key that unlocks the door to knowledge and empowers us to explore the world through words.
• Personal growth flourishes within this course, literacy unveils life's boundless force. Catherine Pulsifer, Education's Sanctuary Improvement Quotes
• A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. Neil Gaiman Book Quotes

• Literacy is not a luxury; it is a right and a responsibility. Hillary Clinton
• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. Kofi Annan Quotes About Reading
• School is where the seeds of literacy blossom into forests of understanding. Author Unknown Quotes About Schools
• 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. Bill Clinton
• Education shapes the clay of potential, and literacy crafts its masterpiece. Author Unknown Quotes About Education
• Literacy is the foundation of all learning. Hillary Clinton Learning Quotes
• To be literate is to dance with the thoughts of generations past and present. Author Unknown

• Within the library's walls, literacy is a passport to endless adventures. Lucy V. Smitty Quotes About Library
• Literacy is the first step towards freedom, towards liberation from social and economic constraints. Anne Queffélec
• Through literacy, we bridge the past, present, and future, connecting with the wisdom of generations and shaping a brighter tomorrow.
• Literacy enriches life's pages with wisdom and wonder. Author Unknown
• When you help others become literate you are giving a life long gift. Catherine Pulsifer
• Through literacy, we turn the pages of history and author the stories of our future.

Mrs. Price Writes

Sign up for free poetry sub plans below!

Yes, sign me up!

Looking for time-saving secondary literacy ideas? Start with these ready-to-go FREE printable sub plans!

12 Life Changing Literacy Quotes That Will Inspire Every Teacher

in Literacy Resources on 12/27/18

Inside you’ll find literacy quotes to strengthen your teaching resolve. Sometimes an encouraging word from a fellow educator is what we need to remember our why. Literacy matters, and teachers have the privilege of building life-long learners. Don’t forget your why!  

Amazon links are added for your convenience and at no cost to you. Should you choose to purchase a book through the link, I get a small amount to put towards my classroom library. 

With a tidy classroom, best laid plans, you head off into a new school year with wide eyes and an open heart… and then October hits. Am I right?

October, the month in which every meeting must occur, all beginning of year paperwork is due, and children are fed sugar and food dye via Halloween. It’s the changing point where teachers bow their weary heads and go from Pinterest planned classrooms to middle of the jungle survival mode.

Normally I’m on here to share my favorite activities, protocols, and literacy resources, but today I wanted to pause and pass on something just as important – encouragement.

Anyone who teaches is a literacy teacher. You have a hand in shaping the writing and reading future of our country. Survival mode or not, that is valuable motivation. We must fight the nagging temptation to let our never-ending responsibilities override the great opportunity we have in teaching. I need to preach this to my own heart! Discouraged and tired teacher, these encouraging literacy quotes are for you.

Because literacy is Power…

The ever changing face of society requires students who collaborate, innovate, and are equipped with a growth mindset. What better way to broaden their horizons than literacy? A childhood friend once mentioned that he felt reading was a superpower. Through reading, he could learn about anything. Don’t forget the immensity behind empowering a child to read and write!  

When you’re teaching kids to write, you’re teaching them to think. Writing is the window through which all thinking starts.” -Sheryl Block

The fire of literacy is created by the sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. – Mem Fox

The relationship between thought and word is a living process, thought is born through words. A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.” – Lev Vygotsky

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.” – Roald Dahl, Matilda

Because Literacy is the Ultimate Social Emotional Learning

The best way to encourage our students to adopt compassion, a growth mindset, and grit, is through social emotional learning. Digital age students need extra social learning because their default mode is screen time, not face to face communication. Reading opens doors to the human experience, which produces:compassion, understanding, and insight. We all need more of that.

If you’re looking for a way to build growth mindset in 2019, check out my New Year’s Growth Mindset foldable  on Teacher’s Pay Teachers . It’s created to help students reflect on their experiences and set goal for the future.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. When we are caught up in a good book we are held, spellbound, by another’s perspective. ” – Joyce Carol Oates

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.” – Derrick Jensen

You are not teaching reading and writing, you are teaching people who read and write.”  – Peter Johnston

I am part of everything I have read.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Check out my favorite books to teach social emotional learning:

Because Literacy Begets Literacy…

Reading and writing are intertwined. The more you get to know one, the deeper you understand the other. It’s cyclical! As a teacher, you have the beautiful opportunity to foster a heart for lifelong learning in your students. An added bonus? You get to experiment with your own writing style. When you model the learning for your students, you grow and learn too.

If you’re hesitant to write with your students, check out my previous post on the personal narrative writing process .

Literacy is the act of writing. Reading is breathing in and writing is breathing out.” – Pam Allyn (FACE Summit 2013)

The desire to write grows with writing.” – Desiderius Erasmus

In General, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there’s so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I’m obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.” – Leni Zumas

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. – – Robert Morgan

While you’re busy filling out ARD paperwork, grading, emailing parents, sitting through meetings, etc.. etc.. take a deep breath, and remember the power that you hold in your hands. Teaching isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for those who, with courage, go to work day after day to make a difference in the lives they come into contact with.   

When you’re tempted to undervalue your time and efforts, read these literacy quotes and remember:  “A healthy attitude is contagious , but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.” Tom Stoppard

Chin up, eyes forward, and teach on.

If you’re looking for ways to incorporate social emotional learning into your classroom, check out my 2019 growth mindset foldable on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Join Me on Instagram

• Grades 6-12
• School Leaders

FREE Poetry Worksheet Bundle! Perfect for National Poetry Month.

70 of Our Favorite Quotes About Reading

Never underestimate the power of a good book.

Who doesn’t love getting lost in a book? Reading not only opens up doors and inspires, it also serves as a timeless education for many. Using quotes about reading around your classroom can encourage students to start a new book series or learn something new. Check out this list of 70 of our favorite quotes about reading!

Our Favorite Quotes About Reading

“it was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.” — fyodor dostoyevsky.

“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” — Fran Lebowitz

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” — Mortimer J. Adler

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” — Diane Duane

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” — Malorie Blackman

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King

“Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” — Louis L’Amour

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” — Walt Disney

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” — Emma Thompson

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” — Bill Watterson

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling

“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” — Horace Mann

“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” — Carl Sagan

“Reading for me is spending time with a friend.” — Gary Paulsen

“We read to know we’re not alone.” — William Nicholson

“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” — Lloyd Alexander

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.” — Virginia Woolf

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” — Jeanette Winterson

“What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Richard Steele

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.” — Lisa See

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Rene Descartes

“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.” — Kate DiCamillo

“The world is shaped by two things—stories told and the memories they leave behind.” — Vera Nazarian

“Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.” — Mason Cooley

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?” — Christopher Paolini

“Putting down a good book can almost be an impossible act to do.” —Unknown

“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” — George R.R. Martin

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.” — Orhan Pamuk

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.” — Ben Okri

“Reading—the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” — William Styron

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.” — Pam Allyn

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — W. Fusselman

“I am a part of everything that I have read.” —Unknown

“A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.” — Louis L’Amour

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.” — John Cheever

“I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.”— William Lyon Phelps

“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.” — Lawrence Clark Powell

“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.” — Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.” — William Cobbett

“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.” — Seamus Heaney

“While the spoken word can travel faster, you can’t take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.” — Kingman Brewster Jr.

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

“There isn’t any distinction between a reader and a writer—reading is so much a part of it.” — Dermot Healy

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin

“The newspaper fits the reader’s program while the listener must fit the broadcaster’s program.” — Kingman Brewster Jr.

“A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.” — Dean Acheson

“If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.” — Sarah Fielding

“A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.” — Stendhal

“Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists …” — Stephen King

“Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what they have said.” — Umberto Eco

“Good writers have two things in common: They prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it wholeheartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemnly or gravely. … He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.” — C.S. Lewis

“Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.” — L. Frank Baum

“Writing is not like painting where you add. … Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.” — Elie Wiesel

Like these quotes about reading? Check out these motivational quotes for students .

Come share your favorite reading quotes in the we are teachers helpline group on facebook .

You Might Also Like

7 Surprising Facts About Reading That Prove It All Adds Up

Every book counts. Continue Reading

Copyright © 2023. All rights reserved. 5335 Gate Parkway, Jacksonville, FL 32256

12 Inspiring Literacy Quotes

Writers Write is a comprehensive resource for writers. In this post, we share a selection of our favourite literacy quotes.

To celebrate International Literacy Day , I’ve put together a selection of inspiring quotes about literacy.

‘International Literacy Day, celebrated annually on 8 September, is an opportunity for Governments, civil society and stakeholders to highlight improvements in world literacy rates, and reflect on the world’s remaining literacy challenges.’

• Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. ~ Frederick Douglass
• So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky. ~ William James
• There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. ~ Jacqueline Kennedy
• I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger of life that gnaws in us all, to keep alive in our hearts a sense of the inexpressibly human. ~ Richard Wright
• People don’t realise how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book. ~ Malcolm X
• When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again. ~ Rumer Godden
• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development…. Literacy is a platform for democratisation, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity….For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right…. Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realise his or her full potential. ~ Kofi Annan
• To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ~ Victor Hugo
• You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. ~ Strickland Gillilan
• Whenever you read a good book , somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. ~ Vera Nazarian
• Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies not in a brief literary escape from reality, but in the gift of hope that goodness truly is more powerful than evil and that even the darkest reality can lead to a Happily Ever After. Do not take that gift of hope lightly. It has the power to conquer despair in the midst of sorrow, to light the darkness in the valleys of life, to whisper ‘One more time’ in the face of failure. Hope is what gives life to dreams, making the fairy tale the reality. ~ L.R. Knost
• We read to know we are not alone. ~ C. S. Lewis

Find out more about international literacy rates and data here .

If you’re looking for more quotes:

• The 30 Best Quotes On Books And Reading
• 18 Fascinating Quotes About Families
• My 15 Favourite Quotes On Grammar
• Nine Literary Scrabble Quotes
• The Top 12 Quotes On Writing Memoirs
• What 20 Famous Authors Had to Say About Rewriting
• The 27 Best Quotes About Bookshops

Top Tip : Find out more about our  workbooks  and  online courses  in our  shop .

© Writers Write 2022

• Discussions
• Reading Challenge
• Kindle Notes & Highlights
• Favorite genres
• Friends’ recommendations
• Account settings

Experience and Education Quotes

All Quotes Quotes By John Dewey

Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

The 100 Best Quotes About Reading

You know our goal at Bookroo is to help you spend less time searching for books so you can spend more time reading! That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the 100 best quotes about reading. Read on to see the many insightful, witty, and motivating things that have been said about reading by authors, poets, scientists, artists, visionaries and even comedians.

Let us know in the comments below which is your favorite, and what quotes you would add to the list!

“ A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one. ” - George R.R. Martin

“ Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ” - Harper Lee

“ Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. ” - Lemony Snicket

“ You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ” - C.S. Lewis

“ Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. ” - Jim Rohn

“ I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ” - Groucho Marx

“ ‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read. ” - Mark Twain

“ You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ” - Ray Bradbury

“ So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. ” - Roald Dahl

“ Think before you speak. Read before you think. ” - Fran Lebowitz

“ Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. ” - Lena Dunham

“ That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. ” - Jhumpa Lahiri

“ The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries. ” - Descartes

“ In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ” - Mortimer J. Adler

“ Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. ” - Diane Duane

“ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. ” - Dr. Seuss

“ Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. ” - Malorie Blackman

“ Books are a uniquely portable magic. ” - Stephen King

“ I read a book one day and my whole life was changed. ” - Orhan Pamuk

“ People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ” - Logan Pearsall Smith

“ Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ” - Margaret Fuller

“ People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. ” - Saul Bellow

“ A good book is an event in my life. ” - Stendhal

“ Reading brings us unknown friends ” - Honoré de Balzac

“ The world was hers for the reading. ” - Betty Smith

“ I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. ” - Robert Louis Stevenson

“ The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read. ” - Benjamin Franklin

“ Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. ” - Louis L’Amour

“ Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. ” - Fernando Pessoa

“ No. I can survive well enough on my own—if given the proper reading material. ” - Sarah J. Maas

“ There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. ” - Walt Disney

“ We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read. ” - Jules Verne

“ A room without books is like a body without a soul. ” - Cicero

“ My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ” - Malcolm X

“ It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book. ” - Maureen Corrigan

“ Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them. ” - Arnold Lobel

“ There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. ” - E. Nesbit

“ One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ” - Carl Sagan

“ I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage. ” - Roald Dahl

“ Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. ” - Ezra Pound

“ If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. ” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ” - P.J. O’Rourke

“ Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ” - Jane Smiley

“ Beware of the person of one book. ” - Thomas Aquinas

“ Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ” - Henry David Thoreau

“ Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. ” - George Bernard Shaw

“ Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. ” - Abraham Lincoln

“ I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. ” - C.S. Lewis

“ You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ” - Paul Sweeney

“ Some books leave us free and some books make us free. ” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. ” - Frederick Douglas

“ There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. ” - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“ Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ” - Austin Phelps

“ “You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me. ” - Strickland Gillilan

“ The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t. ” - Mark Twain

“ To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ” - Victor Hugo

“ Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words! ” - Betty Smith

“ A book is a gift you can open again and again. ” - Garrison Keillor

“ Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks. ” - Dr. Seuss

“ Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. ” - Napoléon Bonaparte

“ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ” - Italo Calvino

“ I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. ” - Jorge Luis Borges

“ Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. ” - Mary Schmich

“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ” - Mary Wortley Montagu

“ I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them. ” - Emma Thompson

“ If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books. ” - Roald Dahl

“ That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. ” - Aphra Behn

“ To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ” - W. Somerset Maugham

“ Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book. ” - Bill Watterson

“ These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone. ” - Roald Dahl

“ I guess there are never enough books. ” - John Steinbeck

“ Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. ” - Voltaire

“ If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. ” - J.K. Rowling

“ Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. ” - Anne Herbert

“ Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading. ” - Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ” - Emilie Buchwald

“ I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. ” - H.P. Lovecraft

“ Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. ” - E.B. White

“ Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. ” - David Levithan

“ Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. ” - Groucho Marx

“ Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. ” - Albert Einstein

“ I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die. ” - Patrick Rothfuss

“ There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away ” - Emily Dickinson

“ I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down. ” - Edgar Allan Poe

“ Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ” - Henry Ward Beecher

“ I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ” - Woody Allen

“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ” - Joseph Brodsky

“ When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ” - Maya Angelou

“ I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. ” - Jane Austen

“ Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic. ” - Carl Sagan

“ Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. ” - Socrates

“ For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime. ” - Audrey Hepburn

“ Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. ” - Gary Paulsen

“ [F]rom the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way. ” - Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. ” - Voltaire

“ How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. ” - Henry David Thoreau

“ Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ” - Mortimer J. Adler

“ A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. ” - C.S. Lewis

“ It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ” - Arthur Conan Doyle

“ Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind. ” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“ What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright. ” - Gustave Flaubert

“ I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. ” - Wisława Szymborska

“ Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today. ” - Holbrook Jackson

“ You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child. ” - Anita Merina

“ Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper. ” - David Quammen

“ Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift. ” - Kate DiCamillo

Want to see hundreds of more book quotes?

• Help Center
• Gift a Book Club
• Beautiful Collections
• Schedule Demo

Book Platform

• Find a Book
• Motivate Reading
• Community Editors

Authors & Illustrators

• Get Your Book Reviewed
• Submit Original Work

Follow Bookroo

10 Great Quotes about Effective Reading Instruction

At Brookes, we’re proud to work with leading literacy experts to develop practical, evidence-based resources on effective reading instruction. Today we’re highlighting 10 great quotes from our authors—bite-sized bits of essential advice on inclusive literacy instruction, teaching writing and reading together, making time to read aloud, and more!

First, assume that all the learners in your classroom are capable of acquiring literacy skills, no matter their background or disability. As this quote reminds us, this is the least dangerous assumption to make about your students. (Quote from Comprehensive Literacy for All , by Karen Erickson & David Koppenhaver.)

Reading intervention isn’t just for special educators. All educators who teach reading should have the skills to identify struggling students and support them with research-based interventions . (Quote from The Power of RTI and Reading Profiles , by Louise Spear-Swerling.)

The reading wars have been a contentious subject for decades, but the most effective reading instruction follows the science . Students benefit when educators “put aside personal philosophies and build bridges between the science of reading and the classroom.” (Quote from The Reading Comprehension Blueprint , by Nancy Hennessy.)

Resist the temptation to think of reading and writing as separate processes that should be taught separately. Students who get plenty of chances to write in conjunction with reading strengthen skills in both areas, including critical thinking. (Quote from The Writing Rope , by Joan Sedita.)

Teaching students explicitly about story elements can build multiple core literacy skills and help all learners develop a lifelong love of both reading and writing. (Quote from  Story Frames for Teaching Literacy , by Carolee Dean; read this Q&A with her about her innovative Story Frames approach .)

Reading out loud isn’t just an activity that benefits younger children. Make time to read aloud to older students who have mastered the art of independent reading—these learners still benefit from listening to and analyzing literature that their teachers read to them. (Quote from Teaching Reading Sourcebook Third Edition , by Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, & Linda Gutlohn.)

Book selections matter, too—students benefit from texts that enrich their vocabulary and stimulate deep thinking about important ideas and timely topics. (Quote from Speech to Print, Third Edition , by Louisa Cook Moats.)

Good readers are generally motivated to read—and fortunately, motivation and engagement can be nurtured with the help of effective instruction. Read this blog post for 4 Ways to Engage and Motivate Students During Reading Tasks at School. (Quote from Maximizing Effectiveness of Reading Comprehension Instruction in Diverse Classrooms , by Sheri Berkeley & Ana Taboada Barber.)

To keep pace with their peers, the multilingual learners must get “enriched, engaging, and rigorous content-area, language and literacy instruction” from you and their other teachers. See this post for 40+ Language & Literacy Interventions for Multilingual Learners. (Quote from Special Education Considerations for Multilingual Learners , Third Edition , by Else Hamayan, Barbara Marler, Cristina Sánchez-López, & Jack Damico.)

Finally, remember that teaching reading requires a lifelong-learning mindset. Just as your students are always learning new literacy skills, you’ll always be learning new teaching practices, research to apply, and strategies to try. (Quote from Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction & Assessment, Pre-K–6,  Second Edition , edited by Martha C. Hougen & Susan M. Smartt, with invited contributors.)

Which quote is your favorite? What book on reading instruction do you find endlessly quotable?

Tell us in the comments below, stay up to date on the latest posts, news, strategies, and more.

• Reading and Literacy
• Teacher Support

More posts like this

5 Characteristics of Effective Structured Literacy Teaching

15 Recommended Resources for Getting Language and Literacy Skills On Track

5 Guiding Principles for Effective Reading Intervention

Write a comment.

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Post a Comment

Education vs. Literacy

What's the difference.

Education and literacy are closely related but distinct concepts. Education refers to the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes through formal or informal means, such as attending schools, colleges, or universities. It encompasses a broader scope, including not only reading and writing but also various subjects, disciplines, and life skills. On the other hand, literacy specifically refers to the ability to read and write. While education encompasses literacy, it also encompasses other aspects of learning, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and acquiring a well-rounded understanding of the world. In summary, literacy is a fundamental component of education, but education goes beyond literacy to encompass a broader range of knowledge and skills.

Further Detail

Introduction.

Education and literacy are two fundamental concepts that play a crucial role in shaping individuals and societies. While they are often used interchangeably, it is important to understand that education and literacy are distinct yet interconnected attributes. In this article, we will explore the characteristics of education and literacy, highlighting their similarities, differences, and the impact they have on personal and societal development.

Education encompasses a broad range of formal and informal learning experiences that aim to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes. It is a comprehensive process that takes place in various settings, such as schools, colleges, universities, and even within the family and community. Education goes beyond the acquisition of basic literacy skills and focuses on holistic development, including cognitive, social, emotional, and physical aspects.

One of the key attributes of education is its structured nature. It follows a curriculum or syllabus that outlines the subjects, topics, and learning outcomes to be covered. Education is typically delivered by trained teachers or instructors who facilitate the learning process through various instructional methods, such as lectures, discussions, group activities, and practical experiments. It provides a systematic framework for individuals to acquire knowledge, develop critical thinking skills, and gain a deeper understanding of the world around them.

Furthermore, education promotes lifelong learning by instilling a sense of curiosity, inquiry, and a desire for continuous personal and professional growth. It equips individuals with the necessary tools to adapt to a rapidly changing world, fostering creativity, innovation, and problem-solving abilities. Education also plays a vital role in promoting social cohesion, cultural understanding, and global citizenship, as it exposes learners to diverse perspectives, values, and ideas.

In summary, education is a comprehensive and structured process that aims to develop individuals intellectually, socially, and emotionally. It provides a foundation for lifelong learning, critical thinking, and personal growth.

Literacy, on the other hand, refers specifically to the ability to read, write, and comprehend written information. It is a fundamental skill that serves as a gateway to knowledge and empowers individuals to participate fully in society. Literacy encompasses both basic literacy skills, such as decoding letters and words, as well as higher-level literacy skills, including comprehension, analysis, and interpretation of complex texts.

While education encompasses a broader range of learning experiences, literacy is often considered as one of its foundational components. Literacy skills are typically acquired during the early years of formal education, where individuals learn to recognize letters, form words, and construct sentences. However, literacy is not limited to the classroom setting and can be developed through various means, such as reading books, newspapers, online articles, and engaging in written communication.

Moreover, literacy is not solely limited to the ability to read and write in one's native language. It also extends to multilingualism and the ability to understand and communicate in different languages. In today's interconnected world, being literate in multiple languages can open doors to diverse cultures, opportunities, and perspectives.

Overall, literacy is a foundational skill that enables individuals to access information, communicate effectively, and participate actively in society. It serves as a stepping stone for further education and personal development.

Interconnection and Impact

While education and literacy are distinct concepts, they are deeply interconnected and mutually reinforcing. Education provides the platform for individuals to develop and enhance their literacy skills. It equips learners with the necessary tools, resources, and guidance to become literate in various subjects and disciplines. Education expands the horizons of literacy by exposing individuals to a wide range of texts, ideas, and knowledge domains.

Conversely, literacy plays a crucial role in facilitating the educational process. It enables individuals to access educational materials, comprehend instructions, and engage in meaningful learning activities. Literacy skills are essential for individuals to navigate through textbooks, research papers, and other educational resources. Without adequate literacy skills, individuals may struggle to fully benefit from the educational opportunities available to them.

Furthermore, education and literacy have a profound impact on personal and societal development. They are key drivers of social mobility, economic growth, and democratic participation. A well-educated and literate population is more likely to have higher employment rates, better health outcomes, and increased civic engagement. Education and literacy empower individuals to make informed decisions, advocate for their rights, and contribute meaningfully to their communities.

However, it is important to acknowledge that access to quality education and literacy opportunities is not equitable worldwide. Many individuals, particularly those in marginalized communities, face barriers to education and struggle with low literacy rates. Addressing these disparities and promoting inclusive education and literacy initiatives is crucial for fostering a more just and equitable society.

Education and literacy are two essential attributes that shape individuals and societies. While education encompasses a broader range of learning experiences, literacy serves as a foundational skill within the educational process. Education provides a structured framework for holistic development, while literacy enables individuals to access information, communicate effectively, and participate actively in society.

Both education and literacy are interconnected and mutually reinforcing, playing a vital role in personal and societal development. They empower individuals to acquire knowledge, develop critical thinking skills, and contribute meaningfully to their communities. However, it is crucial to address the existing disparities in access to education and literacy opportunities to ensure a more equitable and inclusive society.

Comparisons may contain inaccurate information about people, places, or facts. Please report any issues.

Home » Education » What is the Difference Between Literacy and Education

What is the Difference Between Literacy and Education

The main difference between literacy and education is that literacy refers to a person’s ability to read and write, while education refers to the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values , morals , habits, and beliefs.

People often compare literacy, the ability to read and write, with education.  However, the two terms do not mean the same; education refers to the overall development of a person with regard to his knowledge, intellect, behaviour and sensibility. Therefore, literacy is just one step towards education.

Key Areas Covered

1.  What is Literacy      – Definition, Features 2.  What is Education      – Definition, Features 3.  Similarities Between Literacy and Education      – Outline of Common Features 4.  Difference Between Literacy and Education      – Comparison of Key Differences

What is Literacy

In a broader sense, literacy refers to a person’s ability to read, write, speak and listen in a way that allows clear and effective communication. However, the perceptions of literacy may vary from one culture to another. For instance, within the writing traditions of the English language, reading comprehension marks an extremely required skill of literacy, whereas this might not be required by communities who rarely read printed material.

If you are a student, you need literacy to deal with your life on a daily basis. If you lack literacy skills, you won’t be able to do well at school, you will be cut off from the job market, and as a parent, you won’t get a chance to help your own child with his school work. Above all, if you are a well literate person, you will be able to communicate clearly and effectively, get updated with current events and understand the issues that are molding our world

Literacy development takes place both at school and at home. If you need to enhance the literacy skills of a child, the best thing you can do is to encourage his reading habits and make him use the library more and more as letting children read a wide range of texts allows them to explore and expand their literacy skills.

What is Education

Education refers to imparting the values and knowledge from one person to another. In this sense, it is similar to the popular concept in social sciences, ‘ enculturation .’

Children are born without any sense of culture; therefore, education functions to guide them in acquiring culture, shaping their behaviour, and ultimately directing them to play their eventual role in society. However, in the most primitive cultures, there exists hardly any formal education provided within the formal settings of education, such as schools with classes and teachers. Instead, for them, the entire environment they live alongside provide them with enough education and make them acquire the skills required for them to survive in that environment.

With the evolution of time, societies started to get more complex. This led men to come up with a more efficient and effective mode of imparting knowledge and cultural transmission. The outcome was the establishments with teachers, which provided a formal education.

 Similarities Between Literacy and Education

• Literacy is just one step towards education. Therefore, literacy can be considered a part of education.
• Literacy is a factor essential to measure the level of education in a country.

Difference Between Literacy and Education

Literacy, in general, refers to a person’s ability to read and write. Education refers to the process of overall development of a person and involves his acquisition of knowledge, values, morals, skills, habits, and beliefs.

Education helps to build a wiser man, providing him with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. In contrast, literacy is just a step toward education. Literacy cannot always build a wiser man.

Long Lasting Nature

As once mentioned by Frederick W. Robertson, literacy can be forgotten, but education cannot. For instance, most of us know how to bake a cake, but not all of us are recognized as bakers. To become a baker, one must have years of experience and good practice.

In brief, the main difference between literacy and education is that literacy involves a person’s ability to read and write, while education refers to the complete development of a person in terms of knowledge, behaviour, and sensibility. However, even though a person is literate, if he does not have a proper education, there is a high chance that his actions and behaviour would not reflect those of an educated and sensible person. Therefore, literacy without proper education is worthless.

1. “ Benefits of Education .” Global Partnership for Education. 2. “ What Is Literacy? ” National Literacy Trust.

Image Courtesy:

1. “ World literacy map UNHD 2007 2008 ” By Sbw01f – self-made (CC BY 3.0) via Commons Wikimedia 2. “ Boys-kids-children-happy-sitting-286245 ” (CC0) via Pixabay

About the Author: Anuradha

Anuradha has a BA degree in English, French, and Translation studies. She is currently reading for a Master's degree in Teaching English Literature in a Second Language Context. Her areas of interests include Arts and Literature, Language and Education, Nature and Animals, Cultures and Civilizations, Food, and Fashion.

​You May Also Like These

Leave a reply cancel reply.

• PICTURE QUOTES
• DAILY QUOTE
• RANDOM QUOTE

65 Education And Literacy Quotes To Inspire You

Following is our list of the most famous education and literacy quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational education and literacy quotes. Hopefully, these education and literacy quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your education and literacy knowledge!

Quick Jump To

• Famous Education And Literacy Quotes

Short Education And Literacy Quotes

More education and literacy quotes.

The Most Famous Education And Literacy Quotes

Go to table of contents

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'. — Strive Masiyiwa 31

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia 32

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. — Kofi Annan 61

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. — Munshi Premchand 62

Lots of literacy in modern society, but not enough numeracy. — Naval Ravikant 43

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou 52

Art is literacy of the heart — Elliot W. Eisner 58

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. — Cesar Chavez 143

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. — Karen Black 24

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world. — Henry Giroux 68

• Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled. — Queen Rania of Jordan
• Nothing is more important than a good education. — Roy Wilkins
• Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington
• Only the educated are free. — Epictetus
• Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read. — Unknown
• Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world. — Malcolm X
• The importance of education plays a huge role. — Wes Moore
• It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. — Edmund Barton
• Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom
• Education begins at the level of the learner. — Aristotle

Education And Literacy Image Quotes

People Writing About Education And Literacy

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. — W. E. B. Du Bois 284

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti 71

We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge. — Nikki Giovanni 65

Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy. — Irina Bokova 60

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information. — Frederik Willem de Klerk 57

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian 56

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. — Ken Robinson 41

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country. — Harry Belafonte 36

No one can take it away from you. — B. B. King 26

The more you read, the more things you will know. — Dr. Seuss 24

Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity. — Irina Bokova 21

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. — Malcolm X 20

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. — Alan Greenspan 18

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan 18

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. — Katherine Paterson 17

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship. — Kofi Annan 17

The children are now working as if I did not exist. — Maria Montessori 17

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. — Paul Wellstone 16

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... 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. — Kofi Annan 15

Words are the voice of the heart. — Confucius 15

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down." — Isaac Asimov 14

Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read. — Frank Smith 13

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else. — Bill Cosby 13

Education is our passport to the future. — Malcolm X 11

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington 10

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen 9

Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life. — Kofi Annan 9

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own — Amartya Sen 8

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 7

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development — Kofi Annan 7

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. — Kofi Annan 6

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. — Kofi Annan 6

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes]. — Marian Wright Edelman 5

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. — Christopher Morley 5

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. — William J. Clinton 5

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Ruth Rendell 5

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. — Bryant H. McGill 4

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities. — Koichiro Matsuura 4

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children. — Sachin Tendulkar 4

Education is a human right with immense power to transform — Kofi Annan 3

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. — Abraham Lincoln 3

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. — William J. Clinton 3

A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming. — Koichiro Matsuura 3

In Conclusion

Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of education and literacy quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about education and literacy to suggest. Let us know using our contact form .

Feel free to cite use any of the quotes in this collection of education and literacy. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page .

Embed HTML Link

Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage