Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.

American Scientist

Steph McGovern

Business leaders regularly complain that young people don't leave school with the right skills. Encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs makes the connection between school and the world of work, teaching them about practical thinking, team-work, communication and financial literacy.

English Journalist

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.

Australian Scientist

Peter Diamandis

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.

American Businessman

Zoe Quinn

Making accessible games opens up the world of digital play to people living with disability, or even simply people who lack the literacy of an intimidating twin-stick controller.

American Artist

Jenna Bush

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.

American Celebrity

Ken Robinson

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

English Educator

Grace Slick

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

American Musician

Thomas Steinbeck

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

American Writer

John W. Rogers, Jr.

Financial literacy is just as important in life as the other basics.

Literacy is a term universal in importance, relevant for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Widespread Use

Reading and writing are foundational skills that support learning in all subjects.

Basis for Learning

Literacy rate often reflects a country's educational and economic development.

Indicator of Progress

Literacy can refer to competence in areas beyond reading and writing, such as computers.

Subject-Specific

Digital literacy is critical as we rely more on technology in our daily lives.

Relevance to Technology

As society changes, new literacy types emerge, like media literacy.

Evolving Concept

High literacy in a field often indicates expertise or specialization in that area.

Expertise Indicator

Academic literacy goes beyond basic understanding to include deep knowledge.

Educational Focus

 On the horizontal axis is income inequality. The further to the right you go, the greater the income inequality. On the vertical axis are nine social and health metrics. The more you go up that, the worse the problems are, and those metrics include life expectancy, teenage pregnancy, literacy,

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 which brings us finally to what you can do to become more powerful in public life. Here, it's useful to think in terms of literacy. Your challenge is to learn how to read power and write power. To read power means to pay attention to as many texts of power as you can. I don't mean books only.

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 we can actually start to at least begin that process. And so when you talk about legibility and digital literacy, I find it difficult to imagine that we need to place the burden of digital literacy on users themselves. But whose responsibility is education in this new world?

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 who found a talent. And my contention is, all kids have tremendous talents, and we squander them, pretty ruthlessly. So I want to talk about education, and I want to talk about creativity. My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy,

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 visual literacy for small children you know because I believe education would be the only thing they'll help us survive understanding or heritage understand your history and actually being able to continue a project of history of civilization in the world

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 You should look at, what was your goal? How are you trying to uplift nutrition and survival and literacy so these countries can take care of themselves, and say wow, this is going well, and be smarter. We can spend aid smarter. It is not all a panacea.

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 helped established universal education, and organized volunteer literacy brigades that raised Cuba's literacy rate to 96%, still one of the highest in the world. Which allowed the government to control what information everyone received.

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 the drug dealers, the robbers, the blood bank. Everybody was taking blood money. So I got mine by any means necessary. I got mine. Financial literacy really did rule the world, and I was a child slave to it following the bad guy.

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 you think is the most important one that we you know where would you love to start to talk about this well as you say in most years the reduction in malnutrition the reduction in childhood death uh the increase in literacy rates

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 while residents of some cities enjoyed great culture, literacy, and even democratic freedoms uncommon for the time. But nothing lasts forever. Fratricidal disputes over succession began to erode central power