Literacy Quotes · Page 5

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

— Alan Kay

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

— Carl Sagan

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

— LeVar Burton

“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

— Pam Allyn

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

— Malcolm X

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live…

— Danny Glover

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very…

— Rebecca Solnit

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how…

— Jerome Bruner

“Yes. She got into a right state when she realized no one could read them, though. She's setting up some sort of…

— Anne Mallory

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so…

— Hugh Mackay

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle…

— Maryanne Wolf

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning…Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help…

— Jeff Jarvis

“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles…

— L.R. Knost

Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to…

— John Amaechi

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved…

— Eric A. Havelock

Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of…

— Edward Bernays

“In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to…

— Isaac Asimov

Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was…

— Gene Green

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only…

— Louis L'Amour

And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical…

— Melissa Bean

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

— Anonymous

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

— Vera Nazarian

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

— Daniel H. Pink

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

— Frank Zappa

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

— Shirley Brice Heath

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

— J. K. Rowling

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

— Andrew Solomon

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

— Guy Claxton

“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy. ”

— Alejandra Díaz Mattoni

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

— John W. Rogers, Jr

“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]”

— Marshall McLuhan

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

— Amartya Sen

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

— Anonymous

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

— Robert Kiyosaki