Literacy Quotes - Page 15

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

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Significant

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• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Tests, Aliens, Kind

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Kids, Media, Differences

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• No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

  Jim Trelease

  Basketball, Education, Children

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

  Richard Allington

  Education, Children, Book

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• The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.

  Shirley Brice Heath

  People, Mentor, Important

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• I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Children, Reading, Book

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Reading, Giving

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• The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

  John Dewey

  Education, Growth, Aim

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• And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Yellow, White

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Hair, Balls

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• Reading and writing don't inevitably go together. You can read without learning a thing about writing, grammar, or spelling, although, you certainly can't learn anything about writing, grammar, or spelling unless you read.

  Frank Smith

  Education, Reading, Writing

  Frank Smith (2007). “Reading: FAQ”

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• Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.

  Frank Smith

  Education, Reading, Character

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• Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Education, Asking Why, Understanding

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.130, Penguin

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• It is hard to learn when we think we know something.

  Peter Block

  Education, Thinking, Knows

  Peter Block (2002). “The Answer to how is Yes: Acting on what Matters”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

  Bill Drayton

  Empathy, Needs, Teach

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

  Frank Zappa

  Insult, Hopeless, Kind

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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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