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Literacy Quotes

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No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.
Robert M. Hensel

Authors on Literacy Quotes: Greg Mortenson Mahatma Gandhi Kofi Annan Neil deGrasse Tyson Koichiro Matsuura Marshall McLuhan Stephen D. Krashen Bill Drayton Mark Steyn Regis Philbin Chase Jarvis Morgan Freeman Margaret Atwood William J. Clinton Peter Block Holbrook Jackson Amartya Sen Jerome Bruner Stephen Jay Gould Tony Buzan Chris Hadfield Melina Marchetta George Steiner Ursula K. Le Guin Abraham Lincoln Matt Taibbi Kate DiCamillo Ambeth R. Ocampo John Dewey Robin Wall Kimmerer Tom Lehrer Colman McCarthy Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
2.
Art is literacy of the heart
Elliot W. Eisner

3.
Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.
Art Spiegelman

4.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Katherine Mansfield

5.
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.
Jimmy Santiago Baca

6.
What can I say? Librarians rule.
Regis Philbin

7.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates

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There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.
Strive Masiyiwa

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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
Alberto Moravia

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
Kate DiCamillo

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

12.
Creativity is the new literacy
Chase Jarvis

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When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
Rumer Godden

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School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
Ambeth R. Ocampo

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It is hard to learn when we think we know something.
Peter Block

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Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy

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Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.
Bill Blass

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Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.
Pam Allyn

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Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould

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There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
Amartya Sen

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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
Bill Drayton

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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt Taibbi

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For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
Kofi Annan

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Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
Barack Obama

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The notion of multiple literacies recognized that there are many ways of being-and of becoming-literate, and that how literacy develops and how it is used depend on the particular social and cultural setting.
Jerome Bruner

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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
Margaret Atwood

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The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
Mark Steyn

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Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.
Stephen D. Krashen

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Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.
William J. Clinton

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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan

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There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.
David Petersen

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The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Holbrook Jackson

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The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth
John Dewey

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That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
Abraham Lincoln

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With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
Robin Wall Kimmerer

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I think literacy is everything.
Henry Louis Gates

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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

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On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.
Kofi Annan

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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Alan Kay

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Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.
Michael Jackson

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.
Donald E. Westlake

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Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.
Chris Hadfield

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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Marshall McLuhan

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Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
Philip Kitcher

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Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.
George Steiner

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International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
Koichiro Matsuura

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Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Literacy in itself is no education.
Mahatma Gandhi

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I'd rather teach peace.
Colman McCarthy