Literacy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
-- Alan Kay -
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
-- Alberto Moravia -
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
-- Amartya Sen -
School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
-- Barack Obama -
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
-- C. Everett Koop -
There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.
-- David Petersen -
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.
-- Donald E. Westlake -
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-- Edmund Burke -
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
-- Greg Mortenson -
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.
-- Jerome Bruner -
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say,
-- Jimmy Santiago Baca -
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
-- Katherine Mansfield -
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
-- Kofi Annan -
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
-- Koichiro Matsuura -
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
-- Koichiro Matsuura -
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
-- LeVar Burton -
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
-- Matt Taibbi -
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
-- Merlin Mann -
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
-- Nicholas Negroponte -
Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.
-- Pam Allyn -
It is hard to learn when we think we know something.
-- Peter Block -
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
-- Peter Diamandis -
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
-- Rae Foley -
Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world.
-- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh -
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
-- Tom Lehrer -
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.
-- William J. Clinton -
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
-- Robin Wall Kimmerer -
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.
-- Stephen D. Krashen -
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
-- Philip Kitcher
