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I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.
My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.
I would like to help out in financial literacy for the Hispanic community and the athletic community.
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.
That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy.
It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum.
If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.
Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.