“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right… — Frank Serafini Copy Share Image
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say, — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.” — The Bureau Chiefs Copy Share Image
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
As the border between physical and digital gets more permeable, a new kind of literacy emerges. And that literacy is built on… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the...… — Marie Clay Copy Share Image
My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin 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
The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales in childhood are stepping stones throughout life, leading the way through trouble and trial. The value of fairy tales lies… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training." — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“To teachers, education is just a duty, but to students, it's their right.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world. — Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned Copy Share Image
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
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