Tony Buzan

I'm delighted the world is becoming more mentally literate. A few decades ago, if you mentioned the word 'brain,' no one was interested. Now, nearly every magazine on the planet is featuring the brain. One of my original goals, on one level, was to make myself unnecessary.

English Author

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

American Scientist

David Crystal

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

English Educator

Steve Kornacki

I think I'm statistically literate and numbers-oriented. But I'm nowhere near as sophisticated as a lot of other folks I see. Maybe that helps me not get too jargony and communicate this stuff in a way that's somewhat accessible.

James Tobin

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

American Economist

Kerry Greenwood

I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

Australian Author

Lucinda Williams

I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.

American Musician

Henry Rollins

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Neil Gaiman

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

British Author

Christina Hoff Sommers

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

American Author

Being literate means more than reading and writing; it implies understanding and effectively communicating.

Beyond Basics

In some cultures, being 'literate' is highly valued and seen as a sign of respect.

Cultural Perception

Remember, literacy levels vary worldwide; don't assume everyone is literate.

Not Universal

Being literate in a subject means deep understanding, not just surface knowledge.

Specific Expertise

Becoming literate in a field often requires ongoing study and curiosity.

Continuous Learning

Someone may be literate in one domain but not in others; it's subject-specific.

Misconceptions

Tech literacy is an evolving requirement; what's adequate today may change tomorrow.

Evolving Standards

Being computer literate is often a minimum job requirement in many industries.

Job Requirement

Young people are usually more tech literate than older generations due to early exposure.

Age Gap

 what it really means to go and live in a world augmented by technology. The relevance of it, the context of it, what it actually means to go and connect with people and technology being part of everything. They are able to go and reimagine the world around them. They’re more data literate than ever.

Esports, Virtual Formula...

 with the technology of the body. I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have, and I'm absolutely obsessed with finding a way of communicating ideas through the body to audiences that might move them, touch them, help them think differently about things.

A Choreographer's...

 Today, we are here to raise our standards of racial literacy, to redefine what it means to be racially literate. We want everywhere across the United States for our youngest and future generations to grow up equipped with the tools to understand, navigate and improve

What it takes to be...

 age so what are the four attributes that make someone network literate first there's the baseline understanding of new technology think of this as network nology and the technology is important because it makes the the network's tangible in completely new ways they

How to live and act (and...

 am now obsessed with the technology of the body I think it's the most technologically literate thing that we have and I'm absolutely obsessed with finding a way of communicating ideas through the body to audiences that might move them touch them help them think

A choreographer's...

 visually literate in the pursuit of beautiful photographs it's kind of like music in that someone who studies music and practices music hears more when they listen to a symphony likewise with photography the more you pay attention

Making Simply Beautiful...

 they just think of the of ancient Egypt but we're in Sudan right there was a major ancient civilization here urban literate powerful kings that controlled a vast empire in the eighth century bigger than any Empire that had ever

The Lost Kingdom of...

 snails I define part of my mission as the spokesperson for land snails my goal is helping people become ecologically literate about snails this is my volunteers they're from a garden and I don't know what they are okay but I

The Strange and...

 Here is a large literate population that wants to work, right, and how can we make this possible for them? So Karya is one such way through which this population can get on to the digital world and, you know,

Kalika Bali: The giant...

 and to try and make our population more science literate than it is right now by talking about things. The truth, you know, the easiest way to counter misinformation and disinformation

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