Literacy Quotes · Page 6

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

— Robert Hass

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

— Ann Coulter

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

— Michael Jackson

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

— David Blunkett

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.

— Isaac Asimov

“The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

— E. D. Hirsch, Jr

“I believe we can change the world one letter at a time. Literacy isn't a noun, it's a verb meant to be…

— Kelly Tully

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

— Marshall McLuhan

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that…

— Bill Cosby

“...we're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance,…

— Greg Mortenson

The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever…

— Maryanne Wolf

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

— Grace Slick

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth…

— Adora Svitak

I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool…

— Stan Lee

When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what…

— George Lucas

Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is…

— Clay Aiken

I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to…

— Kabir Sehgal

“ProLiteracy Worldwide’s “President’s Report on the State of Adult Literacy 2006” found that 70 percent of prison inmates in America lacked basic…

— Michael Sullivan

According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism,…

— Greg Mortenson

South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30…

— Amartya Sen

Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading…

— Tom Peters

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Critical literacy focuses on issues of power and promotes reflection, transformation, and action.”

— Maureen McLaughlin

Just write your name does not become literate but learning a literacy campaign in India to receive the entirety of the logo

— Mak_786

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.

— Tony Buzan

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

— Hugh Mackay

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

— Merlin Mann

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Sometimes , Education, turns out to have nothing to do with Literacy .

— Anonymous

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and…

— John Adams

“With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.”

— Anonymous

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

— Anonymous

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

— John Dewey

It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum.

— Tobias Lutke

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

— Thomas Steinbeck