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Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say, — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” — Sir Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“ Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved… — K. Flay Copy Share Image
The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy.… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a… — Deray McKesson Copy Share Image
You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance...… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
“These kids didn’t know how to read so I got them dictionaries, and because they were too shy to discuss literacy in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life… — George Karl Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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