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For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. — Kofi Annan
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and… — Kofi Annan
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society. — LeVar Burton
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves. — Marilyn Johnson
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more… — Gwynne Dyer
Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while… — Daniel Goleman
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about… — George Lucas
Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing… — James Paul Gee
Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan
Creativity is the new literacy — Chase Jarvis
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most… — Pam Allyn
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a… — Robert Macfarlane
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. — William J. Clinton
Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone. — Pam Allyn
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet. — Paul Theroux
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. — Greg Mortenson
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and… — James Murdoch
Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation… — Tim Ferriss
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are… — David Barton
Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of… — David Crystal

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