Quotes About Literacy And Numeracy

#1. We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

Bob Brown

#2. Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Guy Claxton

#3. In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

David Blunkett

#4. I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

Sylvia Plath

#5. It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

Zadie Smith

#6. I'm a vampire, James, not a self cleaning oven.

Jocelynn Drake

#7. Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

Alain De Botton

#8. Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

James C. Collins

#9. Archery is definitely easier outside, as I can attest after that one time I tried target practice in my father's throne room. And driving the sun ... well, that's not really an indoor sport either.

Rick Riordan

#10. When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away.

Eileen Myles

#11. The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.

Ann Coulter

#12. Birth is not an emergency. It is simply an emergence.

Jeannine Parvati Baker

#13. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

Irene Nemirovsky

#14. If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.

Gena Showalter

#15. If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

Huldrych Zwingli

#16. Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

Garrett Hardin