“We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.” ThinkingSocialEducationAirIgnoranceEducationalBreatheIgnoredLiteracyOxygenIntercourseFoul Author:E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
“Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.” WorldShouldRememberLife IsEducationTeachInspirational LifeLessonsEternalEducationalHolidayPhilanthropyLiteracyPlaygrounds Book:Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait Source: Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait
“There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.” KindCan DoEducationHealthEducationalAll KindsLiteracy Author:C. Everett Koop
“I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.” IfsShouldBookEnoughTurnsFoundFeltNeededExplanationRecipesAdequate Author:Julia Child
“Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.” ShouldChildrenOpportunityGivenEducationSkillsEducationalAcquireLiteracy Author:Hugh Mackay
“Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.” NeedsShouldChildrenKidsIndividualParentEducationTakenTeacherTeachingCapacityAccountsAvailableEducationalTechniqueLiteracyBe Encouraged Author:Hugh Mackay
“Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.” PeopleWritingReadingGoalEducationClassCenturySkillsUniversalEducationalEducated20th CenturyLiteracyConfinedReading And Writing Author:Hugh Mackay
“International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere” IndividualCommunityEducationImportanceInternationalEducationalCelebrateOccasionsLiteracy Author:Koichiro Matsuura
“it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.” EducationPovertyMajorsEducationalAbsenceLiteracy Author:Koichiro Matsuura
“Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.” ChallengesEducationMoralAchieveEducationalOur TimeLiteracyEducation For AllBasic Education Author:Koichiro Matsuura