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
Making accessible games opens up the world of digital play to people living with disability, or even simply people who lack the… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Eat pudding. Books are good. Eat pudding. If kids read a lot. Eat pudding. They'll get so… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get… — Minrose Gwin Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Grammar is what gives sense to language … sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Just a thought. What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can… — M.J. Croan 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
“Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last… — Jeff VanderMeer 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
“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
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
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’… — E. Anne Mackay Copy Share Image
