Literacy Quotes · Page 4

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

— Ann Coulter

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

— Amartya Sen

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

— Anonymous

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

— Robert Hass

“He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy. ”

— Alejandra Díaz Mattoni

“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,…

— Maya Angelou

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy…

— Evgeny Morozov

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

— Norman Cousins

My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a…

— Greg Mortenson

As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...…

— Marie Clay

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

— Tom Lehrer

Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding…

— Robert Kiyosaki

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation…

— Bob Brown

Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you…

— Frank Smith

Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the…

— Amartya Sen

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else…

— David Barton

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be…

— Hugh Mackay

“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes…

— Stephen Cosgrove

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies…

— L.R. Knost

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

— Andrew Solomon

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

— Guy Claxton

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

— John W. Rogers, Jr

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

— Chelsea Clinton

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

— Katherine Paterson

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

— Steven Pinker

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

— Margaret Atwood

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

— Kofi Annan

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

— Melina Marchetta

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.

— Richard Thaler

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

— Alan Greenspan

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

— Munshi Premchand

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

— Dennis Potter

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

— Richard Allington

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

— Greg Mortenson