All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“They are a testament not only to the Afghans' hunger for literacy, but also to their willingness to pour scarce resources into… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the… — Brian Eno 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
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
“The mockup of the poster in Lady Gloria's London flat was the same size as the ones plastered up in tube stations,… — Richard Tillotson 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
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
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
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
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in… — Shakira Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of… — Jennifer Pozner Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’… — E. Anne Mackay Copy Share Image
“Critical Literacy Critical literacy is not a teaching method but a way of thinking and a way of being that challenges texts… — Maureen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we… — David Gelernter 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
Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
