Literacy Quotes - Page 17

• What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Force, Paragraph

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316

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• Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Christian, Long, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Tom Lehrer

  Example, Proud, Pretentious

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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

  Rae Foley

  Degrees, Speech, Politician

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• I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

  Andrew Solomon

  Mean, Weather, England

  "Andrew Solomon: 'I'm one of five parents with four children in three states'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Strong, Technology

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

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• The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, People, Lines

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Ideas, Issues

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• Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

  Peter Diamandis

  Uplifting, Impact, Problem

  "A decade to mass extinction event in S&P 500". Interview with Lori Ioannou, www.cnbc.com. June 5, 2014.

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• By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Real, Educational, Assessment

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• Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Writing, Learning

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.43, Penguin

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• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Teaching, Emotional

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• A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.

  Jackie French

  Memories, Reading, Kids

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• It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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• Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Military, Reading, Writing

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• While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.

  David Gelernter

  Skills, Worry, Video

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fractions, Has Beens

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.135, University of Toronto Press

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• The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Teaching, Impact

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• The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face an increasingly complex financial marketplace, and it will take the combined efforts of public and private sector organizations to help seniors navigate the many financial choices they face. The start of Financial Literacy Month is an excellent opportunity to thank the Canadian Bankers Association and encourage other private sector organizations to take an active role in providing financial literacy support to Canada's seniors.

  Kevin Sorenson

  Senior, Opportunity, Government

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• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Wall, Successful, Thinking

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• We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Thinking, America, People

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• The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.

  Tessa Jowell

  Book, Reading, School

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

  Tony Buzan

  Thinking, Revolution, Teach

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