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
Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy.… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“For many Jews during Talmudic times, conversion to Christianity prob- ably did not appear as a major change: Christianity looked like a… — Maristella Botticini Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
