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  • The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

    Numbers   Filters   Three  
    Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA
  • Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

  • 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.

    Art   Reality   Numbers  
    Garrett James Hardin (1985). “Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent”, Penguin Group USA
  • Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

    Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.120, A&C Black
  • 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.

  • I would also like to see children aged between 11 and 18 taught financial education in a structured way in schools. I would also say that that is not enough. You have also got to improve numeracy skills, mathematical skills in schools.

    Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com
  • 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.

    "Think big on renewables scale" by David J. C. MacKay, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
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