Literacy How North Quotes & Sayings

Literacy in North America has historically been focused on reading, not writing; consumption, not production. — Clive Thompson

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. — Livy

Loving others means being willing to do things for their benefit more than your own. And sometimes that looks like a Facebook account! — Mandy J. Hoffman

On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are developed in and by means of a material organism. — Alfred Russel Wallace

When you stop hoping you start settling. — Valorie Burton

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring. — Seanan McGuire

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. — John F. Kennedy

The rules are very strict... — Mary Downing Hahn

A man's life is wasted when he lives on, so deceived by the joys of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious of himself as spirit, as self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest sense that there is a God. — Soren Kierkegaard

If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World. — John Pilger