Best 134 quotes in «literacy quotes» category

--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class. --Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty? --No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Not in this house.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives.

Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

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

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

I cannot live without books.

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

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

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world.

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

Love of books is the best of all.

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

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Literature is my Utopia

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

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

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

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

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

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

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

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

(Andrew Johnson couldn't read until he was fourteen! He didn't learn to write until after he was married!)

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.