We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“...we're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“Memorization is not as vital a discipline as fulfilling curiosity with research and reasoning…Internet and Google literacy should be taught to help… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I believe we can change the world one letter at a time. Literacy isn't a noun, it's a verb meant to be… — Kelly Tully Copy Share Image
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
And I also serve on a caucus that addresses financial literacy for young people in this country. And it is so hypocritical… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was… — Gene Green Copy Share Image
“In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities… — Nick Joaquín Copy Share Image
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Yes. She got into a right state when she realized no one could read them, though. She's setting up some sort of… — Anne Mallory Copy Share Image
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
“If you've ever wondered how many prisons need to operate withinin America, just look at the literacy rate. 60% of America's prison… — US Dept. of Education Copy Share Image
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr Copy Share Image
According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Labour's Basic Skills Test will ensure that the one in 10 jobseekers who lack numeracy and literacy skills take action to address… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.” — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
“I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly… — Jennifer Ouellette Copy Share Image
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same… — Fay Chung Copy Share Image
