literacy, n.Definitions

Literacy is a significant yardstick of the development of a nation.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

Literacy is a dangerous thing unless the common people can have some control over what is given them to read in the press and to bear over the radio.

Literacy is essential to development. There is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

Literacy is a fire created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.