Literacy Quotes · Page 5

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

— Mem Fox

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

— Marie Clay

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

— Erica Jong

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

— Walt Disney

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”

— Sir Ken Robinson

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

— Koichiro Matsuura

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

— Norman Cousins

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy…

— Evgeny Morozov

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today,…

— Maya Angelou

We read to our kids at bedtime because we want to have literacy, but what are we doing to make sure kids…

— Donna Strickland

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the…

— William J. Clinton

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as…

— William James

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity…

— Bob Ney

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd…

— Margaret Atwood

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility -…

— Yehudi Menuhin

“With the insight that genuine literacy involves “reading the word and the world,” renowned educator Paulo Freire helped open the door to…

— Paulo Freire

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be…

— Hugh Mackay

No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of…

— Richard P. Feynman

“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes…

— Stephen Cosgrove

“Our own lives are filled with experiences and beliefs that are peculiar to our culture, and would seem bizarre to anyone outside…

— Darren Oldridge

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

— Mark Twain

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

— James L. Barksdale

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

— Tom T. Hall

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

— Isaac Asimov

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

— Alberto Moravia

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

— Greg Mortenson

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

— Richard Allington

“Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.”

— Clyde Heath

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.

— Michael Fullan

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

— George W. Bush

It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum.

— Tobias Lutke

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

— John Dewey

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

— Anonymous

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

— Anonymous