Important Quote by Maryanne Wolf

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit…

— Maryanne Wolf

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it…

— Maryanne Wolf

The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a monopoly on…

— Michael Steinhardt

There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being…

— Maryanne Wolf

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after…

— John Derbyshire

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal…

— Alan Greenspan

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,…

— Anthony Horowitz

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

— Margaret Atwood

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

— Angela Carter