Quotes on Literacy

I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.

I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.

Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.

We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.