I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
“With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.” — The Bureau Chiefs Copy Share Image
I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased… — Judith Butler 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
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“With the advent of literacy and other skills for acquiring, retaining, and sharing information, knowledge is now far more evenly distributed and… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families'… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
“ProLiteracy Worldwide’s “President’s Report on the State of Adult Literacy 2006” found that 70 percent of prison inmates in America lacked basic… — Michael Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The mockup of the poster in Lady Gloria's London flat was the same size as the ones plastered up in tube stations,… — Richard Tillotson Copy Share Image
One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we… — Justin Smith Copy Share Image
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain… — George Steiner 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 used to be Miss Deaf America in another lifetime, and literacy was my platform at that time. And it's still very… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of… — Michael K. Powell Copy Share Image
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
“There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every… — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
“Fluency CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. *author’s note – This is an amazingly blunt statement as well as an… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on… — Saul Griffith Copy Share Image
Future literacy is the ability to forecast approximate milestones and create the capacity to reach them, regardless of contextual change. It's the… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit… — Alan Gibson Copy Share Image
Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
“He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
