Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of… — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare… — Ron Lewis Copy Share Image
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.” — Clyde Heath Copy Share Image
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, we know that racially targeted and racially motivated voter suppression was often blatant. Legislators adapted overtly racist… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
“Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
