Best 134 quotes in «literacy quotes» category

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

I cannot live without books.

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

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

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world.

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

Literature is my Utopia

Love of books is the best of all.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.

We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing ability without a pencil is no particular advantage.

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.