Literacy Quotes · Page 7

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

— C. Everett Koop

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

— Stephen D. Krashen

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

— Confucius

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

— Anonymous

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

— Henry Jenkins

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

— Nicholas Negroponte

“Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one…

— Paul Theroux

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -…

— Robert Hass

As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on…

— John Battelle

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a…

— Roald Dahl

“With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.”

— The Bureau Chiefs

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always…

— Kevin Gates

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

— Philip Kitcher

Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias…

— Ralph Fiennes

...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make…

— Tim Dorsey

Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling…

— Michael Rosen

Literacy is crucial to creating job opportunities, supporting workers and their families and eradicating poverty in our region...Literacy must start in homes…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

“With the advent of literacy and other skills for acquiring, retaining, and sharing information, knowledge is now far more evenly distributed and…

— Vishen Lakhiani

“For many Jews during Talmudic times, conversion to Christianity prob- ably did not appear as a major change: Christianity looked like a…

— Maristella Botticini

Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes…

— John Hope Bryant

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families'…

— Sachin Tendulkar

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can…

— Daniel Goleman

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

— Greg Mortenson

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

— Richard Allington

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

— Isaac Asimov

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

— Alberto Moravia

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

“Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.”

— Clyde Heath

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

— Michael Fullan

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

— Hamza Yusuf

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

— Gregory Meeks

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

— Munshi Premchand

“If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.”

— T.K. Naliaka

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

— Michael Eric Dyson

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.

— Richard Thaler