Literacy Quotes - Page 12

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Stress, Mean, Technology

  Marshall McLuhan, Michel Moos (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.124, Routledge

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• Creativity is the new literacy

  Chase Jarvis

  Creativity

  FaceBook post by Chase Jarvis from Sep 06, 2014

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• Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

  Pam Allyn

  Children, Powerful, Reading

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• A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Fall, Magic, Landscape

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

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Keys, Achievement, Fundamentals

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• Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
  make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
  As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
  we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
  personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
  a part of our lives?

  Alan Kay

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills and reading comprehension; an alarming increase of packaged language (cliches used in speeches, canned messages); and a general tendency to substitute visual media (especially television and video) for written language.

  Mihai Nadin

  Reading, Writing, Media

  Mihai Nadin (1997). “The Civilization of Illiteracy”, p.17, Dresden University Press

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• 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.

  Michael K. Powell

  Jobs, Technology, Media

  "Broadband Internet Keeps The American Dream Alive & Accessible" by Michael K. Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Opportunity, Self, Freedom Of Speech

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• 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.

  Bob Ney

  Reading, Writing, Names

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• 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.

  Jenna Bush

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  "Jenna Bush joins 'Today'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 30, 2009.

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• All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.

  Laura Bush

  Girl, Wise, Country

  Mrs. Bush's Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 02, 2006.

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• 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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Reading, Important

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.14, Small Beer Press

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• They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• 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.

  Dennis Miller

  Civilization, Cartoon, Fiction

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• While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Track, Goal

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• 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.

  Kevin Gates

  Writing, Grandmother, Able

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• Literacy in itself is no education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.176, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Ends

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.176, Rajpal & Sons

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• 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.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Opportunity, Cinema

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.

  Brian Eno

  Player, Hands, Important

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• 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.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, People, Levels

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Powerful

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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• Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Educational, Australia

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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