I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never… — Lisa Bu Copy Share Image
Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men,… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
“Others have found that kids who message a lot appear to have have slightly better spelling and literacy abilities than those who… — The Penguin Press Copy Share Image
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“They are a testament not only to the Afghans' hunger for literacy, but also to their willingness to pour scarce resources into… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The Internet, and all the jobs that come with it, continues to expand, and this makes digital literacy a crucial part of… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had… — Strickland Gillian Copy Share Image
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material,… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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