“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them. — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
