By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
“Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation,… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’… — E. Anne Mackay Copy Share Image
“Critical Literacy Critical literacy is not a teaching method but a way of thinking and a way of being that challenges texts… — Maureen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of… — Jennifer Pozner 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
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
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