Best 134 quotes in «literacy quotes» category

We are a city that has had Islam for one thousand years. We had the greatest teachers and universities. And now these Bedouins, these illiterates, these ignoramuses, tell us how to wear our pants, and how to say our prayers, and how our wives should dress, as if they were the ones who invented the way?

We awaken by asking the right questions.

We have created a culture of reading poverty in which a vicious cycle of aliteracy has the potential to devolve into illiteracy for many students. By allowing students to pass through our classrooms without learning to love reading, we are creating adults (who then become parents and teachers) who don't read much. They may be capable of reading well enough to perform academic and informational reading, but they do not love to read and have few life reading habits to model for children.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him, and science gives today the only world picture which we can consider as valid. It gives an understanding of the inside of the atom and of the whole universe, or the peculiar properties of the chemical substances and of the manner in which genes duplicate in biology. An educated layman can, of course, not contribute to science, but can enjoy and participate in many scientific discoveries which as constantly made. Such participation was quite common in the 19th century, but has unhappily declined. Literacy in science will enrich a person's life.

We write to give strength to the soul of the spirit.

Who made you Queen of Literacy? Go sit in your car!

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.

You battle ignorance by battling illiteracy, and battle illiteracy by battling ignorance.

--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.

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.

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.

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

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

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

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

I cannot live without books.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Literature is my Utopia

Love of books is the best of all.

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.

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

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

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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