Literacy Quotes - Page 18

• Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  World, Internet, Universal

  Speech at the First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan, April 01, 2001.

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• Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.

  Eric A. Havelock

  Years, Greek, Uniforms

  "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

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• Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

  Ken Robinson

  Motivational, Writing, Learning

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.43, Penguin

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• Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Teaching, Emotional

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

  James McCosh

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

  Rufus Choate

  Reading, Passionate, Youth

  Rufus Choate's speech at the dedication of the Peabody Institute, September 29, 1854.

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• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

  Karl Kraus

  Time, Reading, Book

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• I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.

  Marie Clay

  Children, Reading, Gist

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• The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books.

  Tessa Jowell

  Book, Reading, School

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• We need to have financial literacy in America, not just complaining about obstructionism. We need solutions. And I think the solutions are using high finance to make capitalism work for people around the world.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Thinking, America, People

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• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Wall, Successful, Thinking

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• The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face an increasingly complex financial marketplace, and it will take the combined efforts of public and private sector organizations to help seniors navigate the many financial choices they face. The start of Financial Literacy Month is an excellent opportunity to thank the Canadian Bankers Association and encourage other private sector organizations to take an active role in providing financial literacy support to Canada's seniors.

  Kevin Sorenson

  Senior, Opportunity, Government

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• The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Teaching, Impact

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Inspirational, Reading, Book

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1851). “Self-education”, p.65

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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.

  David Gelernter

  Skills, Worry, Video

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• Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.

  E. J. W. Barber

  Military, Reading, Writing

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• It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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• A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.

  Jackie French

  Memories, Reading, Kids

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• If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Giving Up, Kindness, Flower

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• Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reading, Force, Paragraph

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316

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• What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

  Charles Kingsley

  Reading, Book, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1849). “Twenty-five Village Sermons”, p.254

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• Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Book, Reading, Library

  Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953

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