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
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. — Munshi Premchand Copy Share Image
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Making accessible games opens up the world of digital play to people living with disability, or even simply people who lack the… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason Copy Share Image
One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a… — Deray McKesson Copy Share Image
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau 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
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
“I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half… — Peter Diamandis 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
