Literacy Quotes - Page 14

• 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.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Art, Government, Mind

  Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.32, Verso

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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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• Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Impact, Stories, Development

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• There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dirt, Shovels

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• School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Reading, School, Pleasure

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• 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.

  Seymour Papert

  Computer Literacy, People, Machines

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

  Marston Bates

  Reading, Research, Blind

  "The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Reading, Magic

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 70

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• More people should use their library.

  Regis Philbin

  Reading, People, Library

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• What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reading, Intelligent, People

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• Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

  Alvin Toffler

  Reading, Knowledge, Knowing

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

  James L. Barksdale

  Reading, School, Want

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

  Michael Jackson

  Beer, Used, States

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• Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Library, Economy

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

  Susie Orbach

  Confused, Mean, Emotional

  "Bite by bite to success" by Susie Steiner, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2002.

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

  Alan Greenspan

  Numbers, Generations, Today's Generation

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• Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

  Frank Zappa

  Insult, Hopeless, Kind

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• In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the importance of savings and investing. I want to try to replicate the great savers who came out of the Depression, the best savers the country has ever seen. It's crucial that people understand the importance of financial literacy, because it's actually life saving.

  Mellody Hobson

  Country, Kids, People

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• The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.

  Orlando Figes

  Technology, Skills, Profound

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• One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Stupid, Learning, Prejudice

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.255, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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?

  Koichiro Matsuura

  Education, Democracy, Adults

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• Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

  Gary Steiner

  Animal, Silence, Vegetarian

  Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.138, Columbia University Press

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• Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Education, Children, Book

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• Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

  Ellen Lupton

  Design, Identity, Gliding

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.99, Chronicle Books

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• 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.

  Neal Stephenson

  Powerful, Thinking, Media

  "Pushing the Edge With 'Diamond Age' Nano-Machines". Interview with The Associated Press, May 10, 1995.

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