Cultural Literacy Quotes

“Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

“To be culturally literate is to possess the basic information needed to thrive in the modern world.”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

“If plain run is good enough for I, you, we, they, why isn't it good enough for he, she, it? Because we have no choice in the matter. The decision was made by those who fixed our grammar at a certain stage of its evolution, and their decision will probably stand forever.”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

“To be truly literate, citizens must be able to grasp the meaning of any piece of writing addressed to the general reader”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know