We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like. — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women. — Umera Ahmad Copy Share Image
The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone. — Pam Allyn Copy Share Image
We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist… — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a… — Emoke B'Racz Copy Share Image
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one… — Paul Theroux 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
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
It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian 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
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
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to… — Kabir Sehgal 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
Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me. — Strickland Gillilan Copy Share Image
