Literacy Quotes
The best sayings about Literacy that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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I cannot live without books.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.
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Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.
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The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.
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Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
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Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.
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There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.
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If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
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No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.
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When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn't even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn't need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they're going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.
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There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.
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A library should be like a pair of open arms.
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Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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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.
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.
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Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.
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I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.
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South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan, they determined they were going in that direction. In 20 years' time, they had transformed themselves. So when people go on saying that it's all because of perennial culture, which you cannot change, that's not the way the South Korean economy was viewed before the war ended. But again within 30 years, people went on saying there's an ancient culture in Korea that has been pro-education, which is true.
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A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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