Quotes About Literacy

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

What are letters?" "Kinda like mediaglyphics except they're all black, and they're tiny, they don't move, they're old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use 'em to make short words for long words.

Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV-which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite-the people who go into the Meatverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.

We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV—which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite—the people who go into the Metaverse, basically—who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.

We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV—which is sort of an oral tradition.

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance

I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future on this planet.

To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.

Celts appear to have been literate only where they had neighbours who could teach them.

for all we know the origin may have been due to a genius like that of Sequoya, the illiterate Cherokee who in the nineteenth century AD took the fact of English literacy as a proof of concept, and proceeded then to develop a syllabary for his own language from first principles.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

I was like a mutant when I was a boy. I learned to read when I was four years old; it was like a miracle.

Even if god is or was an Arab (an unsafe assumption), how could he expect to "reveal" himself by way of an illiterate person who in turn could not possibly hope to pass on the unaltered (let alone unalterable) words?

If I remember correctly, you've never learned to read, have you?" He shrugged. "What for? I can count and figure as well as any man. My father said that teaching us to read made no more sense than teaching a dog to walk on his hind legs: amusing, but hardly worth the effort.

A person who won't read books has no advantage over one who can't read books.

An illiterate person who dies, let us say at my age, has lived one life, whereas I have lived the lives of Napoleon, Caesar, d'Artagnan. So I always encourage young people to read books, because it's an ideal way to develop a great memory and a ravenous multiple personality. And then at the end of your life you have lived countless lives, which is a fabulous privilege.