Quotes About Information Literacy

#1. As the American Library Association presciently concluded in their 1989 report Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, students must be taught to play an active role in knowing, identifying, finding, evaluating, organizing, and using information.

Daniel J. Levitin

#2. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

#3. Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

Gene Green

#4. Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#5. Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester's widow.

John Grisham

#6. I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

Action Bronson

#7. All I know is that I'm here. And I'm alive. And I'm not alone.

Alice Oseman

#8. Never believe all that you hear.
Always verify the original source of information.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. 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

#10. Our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

William Badke

#11. 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?

Koichiro Matsuura

#12. Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

Kofi Annan

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

William Badke

#14. It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!

Richard Lederer

#15. The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.

William Badke

#16. Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make

Chris Cunningham