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Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a… — Frank Smith
Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything… — Frank Smith
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth — John Dewey
You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the… — Samuel Johnson
Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a… — Isaac Asimov
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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 towels become soaked,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture. — Marty Sklar
Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand. — Rita Dove
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children — Amartya Sen
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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