Literacy Quotes - Page 19

• Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Fractions, Has Beens

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.135, University of Toronto Press

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• Real vectoring in space, real orbital mechanics, is very counterintuitive, very strange, and very hard to render. It's expensive, and there's a learning curve. Some of it is about raising audience literacy to the point where they understand that.

  Jon Spaihts

  Real, Space, Curves

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.

  Robert Hass

  Scotland, Canada, England

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over 45%, but in many rural areas we work it is about 10-15%, and for girls even lower.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Investment, Desperate

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Opportunity

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• Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools...can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy.

  Richard Allington

  Inspiring, Education, Children

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• It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Science, Balls

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• Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion - but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance?

  Isaac Asimov

  Rain, Ignorance, Science

  "Combatting U.S. Scientific Illiteracy" by Isaac Asimov, articles.latimes.com. March 31, 1989.

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• For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

  LeVar Burton

  Mean, Individual

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• You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

  Confucius

  Reading, Ignorance, Self

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• By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.

  Fay Chung

  Differences, Important, Overcoming

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• You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Moon, News

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• Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

  John Harold

  Life, Trust, Learning

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• The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

  Norman Cousins

  Education, Differences, Giving

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• At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recognized that such "Americanization" could be achieved through literacy. Thus, teaching immigrants to read was not just a benefit in and of itself; literacy would also serve the interests of democracy.

  Kevin Mattson

  Teaching, Goal, Democracy

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• Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

  Morgan Freeman

  Ladders, Poverty

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• Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

  Marie Clay

  Inspiring, Teaching, Reading

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• Education is a vaccine for violence.

  Edward James Olmos

  Education, Reading, School

  "'Education is the Vaccine for Violence' - Edward James Olmos". foreignpolicyblogs.com. April 04, 2008.

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• The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Motivational, Education, Being Yourself

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.112, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

  Bob Brown

  Positive, Diversity, Imagination

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• The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

  Rene Descartes

  Book, Reading, Past

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

  Daymond John

  Struggle, Ideas, Payroll Tax

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• For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

  Barbara Walters

  Cuba, Earth, Yardsticks

  "'Behind the Bias': How Media's Hostility Towards GOP Began". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2011.

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