Literacy Quotes - Page 3

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.

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.

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

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

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

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

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

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

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

Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world.

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

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

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

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

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

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

Literacy in itself is no education.

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

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.