Literacy Quotes - page 4

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Greg Mortenson)
The need for critical media literacy and mass organizing has never been more urgent. If you want to go down the rabbit hole with me to learn more about the true nature of the US government and how we can unite to demilitarize our communities, check out The Empire Files. View quote
Abby Martin
When we started in 1947, I think 18% or something was the literacy rate in India. Now it is 52%. It is not a disastrous performance but it is not sufficient, certainly. But some parts of India have done better, my own State of Kerala has done remarkably well. Tamil Nadu is achieving greater success in literacy, so is Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The State of Himachal, is more or less reaching 100% literacy. Some of the states of the North-East have full literacy today. So, the movement of literacy has been uneven, but progressive. View quote
K. R. Narayanan
The ‘Digital India' initiative is one of the key measures to make government transparent, responsive and citizen friendly. The objective is to create a digitally empowered society and infuse technology into government, healthcare and education. From creating infrastructure to services, from manufacture of products to human resource development, from enabling citizens to promoting digital literacy, ‘Digital India' aims to impact all aspects of life in India. View quote
Sushma Swaraj
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They work against literacy and creativity. They undercut our schools and libraries. View quote
Clifford Stoll
Cyberattacks have become a permanent fixture on the international scene because they have become easy and cheap to launch. Basic computer literacy and a modest budget can go a long way toward invading a country's cyberspace. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce. View quote
George R. Roberts
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy. View quote
Howard Rheingold
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? View quote
Hugh Mackay
I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy. View quote
Jenna Bush
As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign. (Joaquin Castro)
If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science. View quote
Gregory Meeks
Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics. View quote
John W. Rogers, Jr.
The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a monopoly on Judaism. This is a turnoff in a world that is increasingly secular and that has turned away from religion. Jews are simply turning away from Judaism. View quote
Michael Steinhardt
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. View quote
Peter Diamandis
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. View quote
Robert Hass
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. View quote
Ron Lewis
The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells. View quote
Richard Carmona
I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women. View quote
Umera Ahmad
The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives. (Daniel Suarez)
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. View quote
Dennis Potter
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. View quote
Kofi Annan
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children. View quote
Amartya Sen
[General literacy would] teach [the poor] to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture, and other laborious employment to which their rank in society has destined them;... it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets, vicious books, and publications against Christianity; it would render them insolent. View quote
Joseph Banks