Literacy Quotes

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

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy. — Chris Riddell

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

If literacy was natural, the word 'illiteracy' would not exist. — T.K. Naliaka

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

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail. — J.K. Rowling

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

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. — Mark Twain

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty — Morgan Freeman

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem. — Mark Hurst

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

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future. — Clyde Heath

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

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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

Literacy is the jump-off point from which all of life's successes take flight. — Lauri Fortino

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

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. — Carl Sagan

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

One man told me that literacy made it a lot more fun for him to masturbate. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. — Malcolm X

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

Long before the internet, critical media literacy has never been considered essential in schools or communities. Instead, — Danah Boyd

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

Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive. — Jen Selinsky

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

[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

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

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

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

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought. — Tony Buzan

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 in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. — Mo Ibrahim

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

People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring. — Erin Bowman

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

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

Once implemented, the method played a crucial role in increasing literacy rates, and making Chinese more accessible to Western media and scholarship. — David Moser

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning. — Mahatma Gandhi

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. — Barack Obama

Creativity is as important as literacy — Ken Robinson