Literacy Quotes · Page 7

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

— Robert Kiyosaki

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

— Melina Marchetta

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

— George Washington

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

— Amartya Sen

Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.

— Richard Thaler

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

— John W. Rogers, Jr

“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]”

— Marshall McLuhan

“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for…

— Dennis Miller

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation…

— Bob Brown

Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't…

— Ken Robinson

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy…

— James Surowiecki

Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a…

— Jon Spaihts

You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read…

— Robert Hass

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a…

— Deray McKesson

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our…

— Anonymous

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I…

— Dolly Parton

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension…

— Susie Orbach

Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so…

— Keanu Reeves

“We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance...…

— Nick Joaquín

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my…

— John Jakes

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as…

— Thomas Cahill

“He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy. ”

— Alejandra Díaz Mattoni

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

— Andrew Solomon

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

— Guy Claxton

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

— Anonymous

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

— Robert Hass

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

— Amartya Sen

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

— Frank Zappa

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

— J. K. Rowling

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

— Shirley Brice Heath

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

— Marshall McLuhan

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and…

— John Adams

Sometimes , Education, turns out to have nothing to do with Literacy .

— Anonymous

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

— Merlin Mann

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

— Jean Berko Gleason