Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of… — Michael K. Powell Copy Share Image
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, we know that racially targeted and racially motivated voter suppression was often blatant. Legislators adapted overtly racist… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at… — Salt Bae Copy Share Image
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words,… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
“We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide… Yes, 86… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators,… — James Murdoch Copy Share Image
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Labour's Basic Skills Test will ensure that the one in 10 jobseekers who lack numeracy and literacy skills take action to address… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same… — Fay Chung Copy Share Image
