A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women. — Umera Ahmad Copy Share Image
The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture. — Marty Sklar Copy Share Image
“If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison… — US Dept. of Education Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.' They… — Laura Pedersen Copy Share Image
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development.… — Krashen Stephen D Copy Share Image
The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“It wasn't raindrops at all. It was a great solid mass of water that might have been a lake or a whole… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face… — Kevin Sorenson Copy Share Image
Dr. King organized the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to shut down Washington, D.C. and force legislators to tackle poverty. His efforts… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity.” — Story Shares Copy Share Image
“Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called “health literacy.” It” — Jerome Groopman Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
