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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More… — Greg Mortenson
If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy. — James L. Barksdale
Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more. — Michael Jackson
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. — Barack Obama
Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon… — Susie Orbach
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications… — Unknown Author
Art is literacy of the heart — Elliot W. Eisner
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries… — Kevin Mattson
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. — Alan Greenspan
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. — Frank Zappa
There is no such thing as a leap into literacy. — David Petersen
In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the… — Mellody Hobson
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty — Morgan Freeman
While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have… — Daymond John
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The… — Barbara Walters
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the… — Aldous Huxley
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and… — Orlando Figes
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if… — Koichiro Matsuura
Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying… — Gary Steiner
By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences… — Unknown Author
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful… — Neal Stephenson
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Creativity is as important as literacy — Ken Robinson
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A… — Donald E. Westlake

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