Literacy Quotes
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Literacy Quotes & Sayings
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Art is literacy of the heart.
— Elliot Eisner
Love of books is the best of all.
— Jackie Kennedy
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
— Jon Scieszka
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
— Stanislaw Lem
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.
— George W. Bush
The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.
— William Badke
Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.
— Stephen D. Krashen
Literacy rots the brain, I'm afraid. And a rotten mind is of no use to the New Order. Sadly, there must be consequences.
— James Patterson
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.
— Ben Bernanke
Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
— Ambrose Bierce
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
— Tom T. Hall
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty
— Morgan Freeman
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
— Lee Kuan Yew
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
— Thomas Carlyle
Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.
— John W. Rogers Jr.
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
— Hugh Mackay
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
— Francois Mauriac
Our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
— William Badke
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
— Nicholas Negroponte
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
Iran's population tends to be fairly well educated, with a literacy rate of 77 percent.
— Cyrus Farivar
In this chapter, what do you find out about Janie's parents and early childhood? CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1
— Zora Neale Hurston
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
— Henry Jenkins
Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.
— Guy Claxton
The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship.
— Victor Andres Triay
You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up. — Melina Marchetta
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.
— Taylor Ellwood
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
— Gregory Meeks
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
— Alan Greenspan
Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?
— Charles Frazier
We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.
— Bill Drayton
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
— Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy.
— Alejandra Diaz Mattoni
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.
— Douglas Rushkoff
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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
It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.
— Jen Selinsky
Even if you have to die tomorrow; die as a literate.
— M.F. Moonzajer
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
— Andrew Solomon
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
— Robert McNamara
Most times, bankrupted finances is a reflection of bankrupted souls.
— Orrin Woodward
There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.
— David Petersen
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
— Marshall McLuhan
Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.
— Ken Robinson
Never believe all that you hear.Always verify the original source of information. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production.
— Clive Thompson
Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.
— Stephen D. Krashen
Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.
— Frank Zappa
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
— Vera Nazarian
When literacy died, so had history.
— Walter Tevis
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
— George Washington
When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.
— Rumer Godden
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[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
— David Foster Wallace
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
— Robert Hass
The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change?
— William Badke
Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
— Amadou Hampate Ba
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
— Mark Twain
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
— Ambrose Bierce
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. [p. 32]
— Marshall McLuhan
Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.
— Isaac Asimov
Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.
— Marty Sklar
Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.
— Rita Dove
With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.
— The Bureau Chiefs
Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading,
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
— Umera Ahmad
He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
— Markus Zusak
Sometimes you have no idea what you are you doing, but you just do it anyways. And that can be a good thing
— Anita Babic
Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?
— Tina Fey
Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Creativity is as important as literacy
— Ken Robinson