Literacy Quotes

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. (Marshall McLuhan)
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. View quote
Alberto Moravia
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote. View quote
Ann Coulter
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. View quote
Bob Ney
If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives. View quote
Danny Glover
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. View quote
Hugh Mackay
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. View quote
Hugh Mackay
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. View quote
Tom T. Hall
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy. (John Derbyshire)
[M]isunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all general impediments to scientific literacy. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. View quote
George W. Bush
Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind. View quote
Neal Stephenson
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. View quote
Eric A. Havelock
In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather! (Andrew Solomon)
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society. View quote
LeVar Burton
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger. View quote
Adora Svitak
We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. View quote
Bill Drayton
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. View quote
Bobby Scott