Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human… — Gary Steiner Copy Share Image
“We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide… Yes, 86… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook,… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a… — Michael Steinhardt 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
“To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling and he understood it… — T.K. Naliaka Copy Share Image
If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“As immigrant artists for whom so much has been sacrificed, so many dreams have been deferred, we already doubt so much. Who… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
