#literacy

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#geographic #i #illiteracy #kids #lifetime

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house. ↗

— Eve Ensler

#illiteracy #oppression #women #women-s-rights #life

...we're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance, challenge dogma, and reinforce our common humanity. The second does the opposite. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#literacy #ideology

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? ↗

— William Badke

#information #information-literacy #students #teaching #change

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#literacy #relationships #humor

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#ago #found #fundamentals #got #grammar

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. ↗

— George W. Bush

#child #her #literacy #pass #read

If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between "folk" culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye. ↗

— Nick Joaquín

#education #literacy #art

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate. ↗

— Jennifer Ouellette

#math #societal-norms #math