Literacy Quotes - Page 11

• In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are dismantled or impoverished through the substitution of training for education.

  Henry Giroux

  Training, Citizens, Spheres

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on. The cry for 'basic skills' practice is a smokescreen behind which schools pre-empt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the six lessons I've just taught you.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, Children, School

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• Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Children, Levels, Reader

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• The 20th of March in 1964, I went before the Secretary of State to qualify to run as an official candidate for Congress from the 2nd Congressional District, and it was easier for me to qualify to run than it was for me to pass the literacy test to be a registered voter. And we had four people to qualify and run in the June primary election be we didn't have enough Negroes registered in Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Running, June, People

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read poetry at the turn of the 20th century when there were about fifty million people?

  Robert Hass

  Book, People, Fifty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

  Robert Hass

  Changed, Suspicion, Readership

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it's important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Thinking, Design

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• Literacy in itself is no education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.176, Rajpal & Sons

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• We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Creativity, People, Leader

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• I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

  Kevin Gates

  Writing, Grandmother, Able

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• PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

  Clive Thompson

  Thinking, Opposites, Data

  Clive Thompson (2013). “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better”, p.56, Penguin

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• Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand the world and shape it, to participate in democratic processes and have a voice, and also to strengthen their cultural identity.

  Irina Bokova

  Skills, Voice, Goal

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Education, Children, Future

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.

  Nancy Newhall

  Dying, Sound, Records

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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.

  Richard Mitchell

  Education, Sex, Children

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• Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have. No one with any literacy, taste or intelligence would want to teach these courses, so the bona fide definition of people teaching them are people who are incapable of teaching anything else.

  Roger Ebert

  Teaching, People, Giving

  "Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology." by David Weddle, articles.latimes.com. July 13, 2003.

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• All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.

  Lou Reed

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: blankonblank.org

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