To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by… — Gerald Kaufman Copy Share Image
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also… — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to … A form of political illiteracy. — Bill Kraus Copy Share Image
The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts… — Mitch Albom 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
I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Religious illiteracy is more dangerous because religion is the most volatile constituent of culture, because religion has been, in addition to one… — Stephen R. Prothero Copy Share Image
The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“Did you know that seventy-five to eighty percent of juvenile offenders can’t read at grade level?” “Really?” This was news to me.… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In an alleged democracy, the image of the public sphere with its appeal to dialogue and shared responsibility has given way to… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
