Literacy Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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

  Henry Jenkins

  Writing, Media, Assuming

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.170, NYU Press

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• Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

  Henry Jenkins

  Expression, Focus, Community

  "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education of the 21st Century". www.nwp.org. 2006.

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• Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Life, Learning, Firsts

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• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  Edward Bernays

  Writing, Data, Mind

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• Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  May, Probability, Impediments

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• Being promoted to a top position in your organisation, or even being elected to public office, does not suddenly endow you with financial literacy, if you did not acquire and develop it, earlier in your life.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Office, Doe, Financial

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• 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.

  James Murdoch

  Communication, People, Choices

  "This much I know". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, People, Financial

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

  Guy Claxton

  Teaching, Learning, Fundamentals

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.120, A&C Black

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

  Alan Kay

  Magic, Aim, Mediums

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• There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Reading, Writing, Reading And Writing

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• Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

  George Karl

  Retirement, Children, Skills

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• 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.

  Justin Smith

  Children, Supportive, Done

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• Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

  Lucy Calkins

  Education, Writing, Labels

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• 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.

  James Paul Gee

  Thinking, Playing Games, Computer Literacy

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• Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Future, Science

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds The Alarm Over Science Illiteracy, And For Good Reason" By David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2015.

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

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Reading, Steps, Findings

  Robin Wall Kimmerer (2003). “Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses”

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• 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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• 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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