{"quotes":[{"text":"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["america","big-bang","big-bang-theory","church-and-state","creation","creationism","dinosaurs","education","evolution","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-religion","intelligent-design","letters","literacy","new-jersey","new-york-times","noah-s-ark","religion","science","scientific-literacy","teachers","teaching"],"id":533,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["creativity","dancing","famous-poets","famous","literacy","music","national-poetry-month","poem-in-your-pocket-day","poetry","poetry","poets-and-poetry","reading","revelations","savannah-","savannah-poets","world-poetry-day"],"id":3643,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!","author":"Jan Karon","tags":["book-lover","books","literacy","reading"],"id":5959,"author_id":"Jan+Karon"},{"text":"Every old man that dies is a library that burns.","author":"Amadou Hampâté Bâ","tags":["biography","culture","literacy"],"id":15172,"author_id":"Amadou+Hamp%C3%A2t%C3%A9+B%C3%A2"},{"text":"If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors’ reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the “who is who”, the “what is what” and the “where is Waldo”, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness. ('Fish for silence.').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["be-aware","become","connectedness","daily","demonstrate","differ-from","discordant","endeavor","episode","find-out","fish","literacy","live","neighbors","range","reading","reality","shades","silence","social","surroundings","take","unrecognizable","vibe","where-is-waldo","who-is-who"],"id":15400,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.","author":"Alan Gibson","tags":["libraries","library","literacy"],"id":18633,"author_id":"Alan+Gibson"},{"text":"[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.","author":"David Foster Wallace","tags":["humility","literacy"],"id":21315,"author_id":"David+Foster+Wallace"},{"text":"Literacy is a fundamental life skill, one that serves as a portal to knowledge and a lifetime of opportunity.","author":"Story Shares","tags":["civic-value","diversity","equality","inspirational","literacy","reading","writing"],"id":21330,"author_id":"Story+Shares"},{"text":"It’s our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child’s life.","author":"Soraya Diase Coffelt","tags":["children","education","foundation","literacy","passion","reading"],"id":22916,"author_id":"Soraya+Diase+Coffelt"},{"text":"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["literacy","reading","teaching"],"id":33923,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}