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 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
“Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.' I didn't know that deers could read.' They… — Laura Pedersen 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
The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be. — Michael Fullan Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin 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
Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even… — James Paul Gee 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
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading… — Tom Peters 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
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words,… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. — Gregory Meeks Copy Share Image
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training." — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist… — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
