Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable. — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else… — David Barton Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
