Literacy Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Education, Children, Future

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• The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People read the poetry when it was written. In Ireland, there was a poor literacy rate and people remember that poetry. That was handed on as a memorial tradition.

  Eavan Boland

  People, Memorial, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.

  John Amaechi

  Smart, School, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

  J. K. Rowling

  Education, Failing, Default

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• Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries.

  Clifford Stoll

  Strong, Creativity, School

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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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• If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.

  John Pilger

  Real, School, People

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• The schools can't cover all the values that go along with how you handle your money. For example, a financial literacy class might not teach me to hate debt the way my grandmother, Big Mama did.

  Michelle Singletary

  Hate, School, Grandmother

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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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• Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Writing, Years

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Our Generation, Self

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• I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

  Tom T. Hall

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

  David Crystal

  Reading, Yield, Giving

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• Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Sms, Young

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2008

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• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  War, Epic, Technology

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• The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  People, Goal, Challenges

  Speech at the World Congress - Engineering and Digital Divide, Tunisia, October 14, 2003.

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