Quotes About Numeracy

#1. We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

David J. C. MacKay

#2. 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

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

Guy Claxton

#4. Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy.

Nicholas Kristof

#5. 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

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

David Blunkett

#7. It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate's competency in numerate matters. Numeracy

Garrett Hardin

#8. I hope for my poetry to be empirical.
It shall suggest making love:
you will want the usual
in an unusual way.

Thabo Jijana

#9. After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

Charley Pride

#10. Paris?" she said hazily, and that was when Paris whirled to face the wall again, because she was barely clothed, and now that she wasn't on the verge of dying, that was a lot more embarrassing. And improper. And kind of attractive, which he was really trying not to think about right now.

Rosamund Hodge

#11. Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

Coco Chanel

#12. I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

Michel Houellebecq

#13. I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

Francis Schaeffer