We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook,… — Kabir Sehgal 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 was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no… — Robert McNamara 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
My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill. — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“ Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming. — Merlin Mann 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
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
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