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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Margaret Atwood
Democracy
Writing
Will
Practice
Reading
Young
Older
Believe
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Writers
Like
Dead
Well
Readers
Course
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Improve
Goes
Literacy
Which
Many
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
Ron Lewis
Education
Finance
Financial
Our
Finances
Adequately
Attention
Retirement
Because
Healthcare
Issue
Command
American
Literacy
Should
Organizing
Many
To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan
Education
You
Communication
Will
Solid
Solid Foundation
Both
Soon
Importance
Learn
Verbal
Did
Literacy
Succeed
Communication Skills
Skills
Foundation
Basics
Numerical
I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test.
Fannie Lou Hamer
You
Training
Beat
Had
Voter
Know
Pass
How
Test
Were
Been
Jail
Just
Literacy
Register
Registration
Us
Teaching
Workshop
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
Daniel Goleman
Learning
People
Responsibility
Become
Community
Active
Changes
More
Both
Daunting
Individual
Mentors
Emotional
Participants
Major
Implies
Mission
Beyond
Involved
Schools
Go
Traditional
Task
Children
Literacy
Requires
Teachers
Helping
Socialize
Two
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
Problems
Tomorrow
Solutions
Through
Literacy
Which
Flow
I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.
Ben Bernanke
Financial
Think
Students
Course
Any
Literacy
Should
Who
Exposed
Basic
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.
Howard Rheingold
Democracy
You
Revolution
Unlocked
Press
Simply
Until
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Printing
Printing Press
Govern
Literacy
Themselves
Who
In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test.
John Lewis
You
Vote
Age
People
Voting
Down
Tell
Would
Percent
Blacks
Only
Could
Attempt
Had
Over
Pass
Courthouse
Test
Go
Were
Literacy
So-Called
Place
Again
Register
Registered
Alabama
Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.
John Lewis
Time
Vote
Women
Mother
Father
Black
Men
Men And Women
Own
My Own
Uncles
Could
Attempted
Allowed
Because
Pass
Test
Were
Aunts
Literacy
Register
Grandfather
Each
Each Time
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
Lee Kuan Yew
You
Man
Vote
Values
System
Run
Moral
One-Man
Able
Literacy
Ethical
Certain
Standard
Need
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.
Maryanne Wolf
Reading
Our
Our Lives
Evolving
Miracle
Fingertips
Entwined
Fail
Often
Literacy
Realize
Much
Act
Lives
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.
Mo Ibrahim
Education
Amazing
Country
No Country
Almost
Match
Literacy
Tunisia
Region
Asia
Even
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Munshi Premchand
Life
Education
You
Degrees
Literacy
Successful
Need
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You
Science
Lesson
Think
Thinking
Recite
Out
Rather
More
Facts
Proposed
Wired
Wiring
Come
Scientific
How
Been
Brain
Than
Curriculum
Literacy
Interested
Plan
Your
Many
Flows
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You
Science
Big
Think
About
Part
Simply
Do You Know
Know
Big Bang
How
Bang
Front
Literacy
Biggest
Information
Aspect
Presented
Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
Patrisse Cullors
Democracy
Rights
Experience
People
Voting
Black
Long
Past
Experiment
Presidential
Fraught
Failed
Weird
Over
Voter
Like
Voting Rights
Felt
Been
Years
Tests
Times
American
Poll
Literacy
Social
Taxes
Elections
The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
Peter Diamandis
Gratitude
World
Opportunities
Problems
Become
Energy
Market
Hunger
Solve
Huge
Huge Thing
Get
Literacy
Biggest
Process
Billionaire
Thing
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Sachin Tendulkar
Education
Health
Women
Economic Development
Negative
Girl
Country
Negatively
India
Impact
Impacts
Economic
Development
Over
Also
Well-Being
Families
Lack
Just
Children
Literacy
Low
Illiterate
Lives
Her
Million
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.
Adora Svitak
Age
Youth
World
Word
Awareness
Everything
Hunger
About
Voice
Written
Written Word
Since
Been
Literacy
Exploring
Four
Championing
Raising
I would like to help out in financial literacy for the Hispanic community and the athletic community.
Alex Rodriguez
Financial
Community
Out
Would
Athletic
Like
Hispanic
Hispanic Community
Literacy
Help
At base, financial literacy is inextricably connected to control over one's future.
Ann Cotton
Future
Financial
Control
Over
Inextricably
Literacy
Connected
Base
Camfed graduates are active in their villages using their skills and resources to improve as many lives as possible. They are teaching financial literacy to marginalized women and bringing vital health care information to rural schoolchildren. Through example, they are demonstrating the power of philanthropy.
Ann Cotton
Health
Women
Financial
Care
Example
Power
Active
Philanthropy
Resources
Possible
Rural
Vital
Through
Schoolchildren
Health Care
Demonstrating
Improve
Graduates
Literacy
Information
Skills
Teaching
Many
Using
Villages
Lives
Bringing
Marginalized
A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.
Anthony Horowitz
Justice
Youth
People
Become
Prison
Young
Relating
Pleasant
Slightly
Sight
Locked
Drawn
Locked Up
Look
Unwillingly
Issues
Up
Author
Just
Children
Literacy
Soapbox
Young People
Number
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.
Bob Ney
Writing
Independence
Reading
Bears
Name
Blind
His
Braille
Louis
Literacy
Dots
Created
Productivity
Code
Brings
Raised
There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
C. Everett Koop
Health
You
Marry
Kinds
Literacy
Things
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