Quotes about Literacy

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. Votes: 5

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here. Votes: 5

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions. Votes: 4

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. Votes: 4

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. Votes: 4

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone. Votes: 4

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable. Votes: 4

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. Votes: 4

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. Votes: 4

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Votes: 4

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well. Votes: 4

Literacy in itself is no education. Votes: 3

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty Votes: 3

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. Votes: 3

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say, Votes: 3

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning. Votes: 3

Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future. Votes: 3

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment. Votes: 3

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere Votes: 3

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. Votes: 3

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition... Votes: 3

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship. Votes: 3

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel. Votes: 3

Creativity is as important as literacy Votes: 2

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Votes: 2

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. Votes: 2

There is no friend as loyal as a book. Votes: 2

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. Votes: 2

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Votes: 2

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. Votes: 2

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Votes: 2

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. Votes: 2

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. Votes: 2

To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. Votes: 2

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote. Votes: 2

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Votes: 2

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. Votes: 2

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. Votes: 2

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. Votes: 2

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. Votes: 2

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. Votes: 2

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills. Votes: 2

I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. Votes: 2

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. Votes: 2

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries. Votes: 2

More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. Votes: 2

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. Votes: 2

Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested. Votes: 2

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? Votes: 2

I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates, the illiteracy rate, you know literacy in the United States was a lot higher in 1890 than it is now. Votes: 2

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills? Votes: 2

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children. Votes: 2

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you. Votes: 2

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed. Votes: 2

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. Votes: 2

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion. Votes: 2

The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells. Votes: 2

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy. Votes: 1

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. Votes: 1

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. Votes: 1

Creativity is the new literacy Votes: 0

I think literacy is everything. Votes: 0

Art is literacy of the heart Votes: 0

Art is literacy of the heart. Votes: 0

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. Votes: 0

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. Votes: 0

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development Votes: 0

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand. Votes: 0

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'. Votes: 0

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy. Votes: 0

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development. Votes: 0

Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world. Votes: 0

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy. Votes: 0

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. Votes: 0

There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. Votes: 0

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society. Votes: 0

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics. Votes: 0

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought. Votes: 0

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. Votes: 0

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy. Votes: 0

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy. Votes: 0

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. Votes: 0

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. Votes: 0

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. Votes: 0

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. Votes: 0

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy. Votes: 0

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public. Votes: 0

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. Votes: 0

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up. Votes: 0

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. Votes: 0

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. Votes: 0

Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training." Votes: 0

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them. Votes: 0

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. Votes: 0

Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens. Votes: 0

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. Votes: 0

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. Votes: 0

Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society. Votes: 0

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children Votes: 0

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill. Votes: 0

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate. Votes: 0

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education. Votes: 0

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much. Votes: 0

Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more. Votes: 0

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. Votes: 0

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. Votes: 0

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people. Votes: 0

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course. Votes: 0

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. Votes: 0

If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. Votes: 0

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status. Votes: 0

The value of universal literacy is of course questionable in a society that practices the strictest form of censorship. Votes: 0

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. Votes: 0

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. Votes: 0

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. Votes: 0

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them. Votes: 0

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. Votes: 0

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases. Votes: 0

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. Votes: 0

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life. Votes: 0

Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture. Votes: 0

The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. Votes: 0

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming. Votes: 0

Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1424, for instance; after Gutenberg literacy became widespread. Votes: 0

I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women. Votes: 0

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Votes: 0

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system. Votes: 0

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. Votes: 0

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world. Votes: 0

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. Votes: 0

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather! Votes: 0

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example. Votes: 0

We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education. Votes: 0

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it. Votes: 0

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later. Votes: 0

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy, Votes: 0

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S. Votes: 0

We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well. Votes: 0

I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy? Votes: 0

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth. Votes: 0

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education. Votes: 0

It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process. Votes: 0

We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world. Votes: 0

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been. Votes: 0

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight. Votes: 0

Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves Votes: 0

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. Votes: 0

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read. Votes: 0

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody. Votes: 0

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both the necessary habits of mind and a sphere of common reference. Votes: 0