Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.
We were not taught financial literacy in school. It takes a lot of work and time to change your thinking and to become financially literate.
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.
My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher as an apprentice when I was 14.
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
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.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.
When you break finances down in a way that kids can understand, it creates financial literacy that grows with them as they become adults.
I think people don't understand compound interest because typically no one ever explains it to them and the level of financial literacy in the US is very low.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
We will depend on American students who can turn their literacy in coding and computer science into creative solutions that address the complex problems facing our nation.
The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy.
Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't 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.
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.
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.
You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.
I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.
Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.
My work to promote education and literacy in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan has become my life's mission. This takes a full-time commitment 365 24/7.
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.
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?
The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
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.
The Internet, and all the jobs that come with it, continues to expand, and this makes digital literacy a crucial part of every girls' education.
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
I would like to help out in financial literacy for the Hispanic community and the athletic community.
Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.
Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.
Hamirpur has a high literacy rate and most people are well-settled. It is also home to a significant number of Army men, government employees and farmers.
Government and companies working together to support parents, teachers, and mentors within the community can give kids a strong background in financial literacy.
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.
Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.
Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training."
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.
Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
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