Air Quote by E. D. Hirsch, Jr

For some reason, our culture is one that preaches that furthering your education is something that is always worth the price tag, and the…

— Kat Timpf

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our…

— Hugh Mackay

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true…

— Ann Bridge

If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching…

— Mitsuye Yamada

“Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.”

— Taylor Ellwood

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we…

— Samuel Smiles

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— Anonymous

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— Deray McKesson

What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not…

— Kenny Smith

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of…

— George Bernard Shaw