Literacy Quotes · Page 5

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

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

— Amartya Sen

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

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

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

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't…

— Ken Robinson

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

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

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

— Gregory Meeks

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

— Munshi Premchand

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

— Hamza Yusuf

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

— Dennis Potter

“If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.”

— T.K. Naliaka

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

— Michael Fullan

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

— Alberto Moravia

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

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

— Confucius

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

— Anonymous

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

— Henry Jenkins

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

— Stephen D. Krashen

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

— C. Everett Koop