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Author:Kofi Annan

“On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.”

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Author:Kathleen Blanco

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.”

“Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.”

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Author:Ralph Fiennes

“No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.”

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Author:Robert M. Hensel

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:C. Everett Koop

“Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Hugh Mackay

“International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere”

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Author:Koichiro Matsuura

“it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.”

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Author:Koichiro Matsuura

“Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.”

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Author:Koichiro Matsuura

“A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.”

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Author:Koichiro Matsuura

“I'd rather teach peace.”

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Author:Colman McCarthy

“Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!”

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Author:Roger Moore

“Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?”

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Author:Marla Ruzicka

“we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own”

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Book:Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives

Source: Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives

“What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?”

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Author:Kathleen Turner

“Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world.”

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Author:Clay Aiken

“Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.”

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Author:Carol Bellamy

“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

“Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.”

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Author:Frederik Willem de Klerk

“People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.”

“I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.”

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Author:Wilma Mankiller

“Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.”

“We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.”

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Author:Shakira

“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”

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Author:Alice Waters

“I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.”

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Author:Kanye West

“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”

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Author:Barbara Jordan

“The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.”

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Author:Paul MacCready

“When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.”

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Book:Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

Source: Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning

“If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.”

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Author:Krister Stendahl

“The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.”

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Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”

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Book:Marva Collins Way

Source: Marva Collins Way

“If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.”

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Author:William Bennett

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