Literacy Quotes - Page 2

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

Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

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

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

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

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.

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

Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

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

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

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 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.

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

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

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

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

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

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

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

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

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.

I think literacy is everything.

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.