Literacy Quotes

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

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

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

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

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

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

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't see.

I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

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

I'd rather teach peace.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.

My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a full-time commitment 365 24/7.

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

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

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.

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

Literacy in itself is no education.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

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

If journalism is the first draft of history, then digital literacy is the first blush of the first page of history.

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

The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

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

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

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

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.