I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words,… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population… — Richard Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“It wasn't raindrops at all. It was a great solid mass of water that might have been a lake or a whole… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face… — Kevin Sorenson Copy Share Image
You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as… — Mike Schmoker Copy Share Image
“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development.… — Krashen Stephen D Copy Share Image
My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at… — Salt Bae Copy Share Image
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old… — Amartya Sen 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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators,… — James Murdoch Copy Share Image
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get… — Peter Diamandis 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
It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had… — Strickland Gillian Copy Share Image
Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In our schools, they're supposed to be taught to read and write and do mathematics. We are supposed to be teaching them… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
“Others have found that kids who message a lot appear to have have slightly better spelling and literacy abilities than those who… — The Penguin Press Copy Share Image
“Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never… — Lisa Bu Copy Share Image
Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men,… — Anurag Thakur Copy Share Image
We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
