“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud… — Jacqueline Wilson 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
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same… — Fay Chung Copy Share Image
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think there in a great deal to be said for religious education in the sense of teaching about religion and biblical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our… — Neil Bush Copy Share Image
The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training,… — George R. Roberts Copy Share Image
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“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
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher… — Joaquin Castro 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
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
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
“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
Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population… — Tom Chatfield 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
A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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