“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Labour's Basic Skills Test will ensure that the one in 10 jobseekers who lack numeracy and literacy skills take action to address… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
“We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The Internet, and all the jobs that come with it, continues to expand, and this makes digital literacy a crucial part of… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men,… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
“Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never… — Lisa Bu Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
“Others have found that kids who message a lot appear to have have slightly better spelling and literacy abilities than those who… — The Penguin Press Copy Share Image
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
