There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen 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
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
The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
“There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every… — Peadar Ó Guilín 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
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families'… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a… — Emoke B'Racz Copy Share Image
The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver… — John Locke 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
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
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
