Literacy Quotes
Literacy Quote of the day
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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 all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Don't cut up your credit cards, the problem is not the cards, it's the lack of financial literacy of the person holding the cards and always make the best out of a bad situation
Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
