Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me. — Strickland Gillilan Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply. — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face… — Kevin Sorenson Copy Share Image
“When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population… — Richard Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange… — Claire Danes 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
