Instruction Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image “Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instruction Literacy
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 Copy Share Image
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Children learn best by observing adults action, not by receiving instructions! — Liz Mendoza Copy Share Image
[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science.… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God because it was made according to God's instructions. Cain, however, tried to approach God in his own way… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people-people of… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. — Horace Copy Share Image