Best 134 quotes in «literacy quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Literature is my Utopia

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

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

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.

Love of books is the best of all.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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

We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.

About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life"—and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it!

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing ability without a pencil is no particular advantage.

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious.

Any academic skill is quickly achievable if charged with clear purpose and an appeal to enthusiastic self-interest. Tarzan of the Apes only needed about twenty minutes to figure out how to read the beautiful Jane Porter’s cursive writing.

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

Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.