I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Just a thought. What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can… — M.J. Croan Copy Share Image
You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get… — Minrose Gwin Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“With the insight that genuine literacy involves “reading the word and the world,” renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit… — Alan Gibson Copy Share Image
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher… — Joaquin Castro Copy Share Image
Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“Fluency CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. *author’s note – This is an amazingly blunt statement as well as an… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Future literacy is the ability to forecast approximate milestones and create the capacity to reach them, regardless of contextual change. It's the… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on… — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
“There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every… — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I used to be Miss Deaf America in another lifetime, and literacy was my platform at that time. And it's still very… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we… — Justin Smith Copy Share Image
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
![“Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to…” quote by Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b62/amartya-sen-2518_areas_even-in-areas-like-the-most-depressed-re_1551003.jpg)
