Literacy Quotes · Page 3

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

— Anonymous

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

— Strive Masiyiwa

I believe coding is fundamental to literacy in the future.

— Craig Federighi

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

— Pam Allyn

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

— Carl Sagan

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

— Martin Buber

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

— Edward R. Murrow

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

— Alan Kay

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition...

— Kofi Annan

“Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called “health literacy.” It”

— Jerome Groopman

You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read…

— Robert Hass

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

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face…

— John Derbyshire

“ Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he…

— Ambrose Bierce

The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from…

— Charles Colson

“If our schools continue to limit the literacy curriculum to reading and writing traditional, alphabetic, printed texts, then our children will be…

— Elizabeth A. Baker

At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half…

— Peter Diamandis

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids…

— Donna Strickland

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as…

— Thomas Cahill

Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension…

— Susie Orbach

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so…

— Keanu Reeves

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our…

— Anonymous

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I…

— Dolly Parton

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have…

— Samuel Johnson

Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools…

— Carol Bellamy

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

— Peter Diamandis

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

— Abraham Lincoln

“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.”

— Donalyn Miller

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

— Henry David Thoreau

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

— Merlin Mann

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

— Hugh Mackay

Just write your name does not become literate but learning a literacy campaign in India to receive the entirety of the logo

— Mak_786

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

— Marshall McLuhan

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.

— Isaac Asimov

“The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

— David Blunkett