“With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread.” — Larry Stone Copy Share Image
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We will depend on American students who can turn their literacy in coding and computer science into creative solutions that address the… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life… — George Karl Copy Share Image
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“These kids didn’t know how to read so I got them dictionaries, and because they were too shy to discuss literacy in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill. — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. — Gregory Meeks Copy Share Image
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. — Munshi Premchand Copy Share Image
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
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