Literacy Quotes

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

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

According to a new geographic literacy study 4 out of 10 American students couldn't find Iraq on a map. However 10 out of 10 Mexicans could find the U.S. without a map.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.

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

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

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

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.

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

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

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

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

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

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.

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

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.

I think literacy is everything.

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

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.

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

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