“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.” FirstsChildrenUseAbleFormReadingWishEducationStepsLearningCenturyPoliticianFutureSkillsGainsUltimateTwentiesInvestmentEducationalPrioritiesFirst StepsLiteracyAutonomyIlliteracyChildren LearningUnesco Author:Irina Bokova
“21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development.” WorldHumansRealityHappensEducationCenturyDevelopmentActivityIndia21st CenturySlogansHuman DevelopmentEmergenceFountainheadProminence Author:Narendra Modi
“The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.” UniverseEducationCenturyIndiaEmbrace21st CenturyPower And Strength Author:Narendra Modi
“The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.” PersonsStillsLightAgeTodayLiteratureDarkEducationClassKnowledgeCenturyGoodnessDignityLettersDestructionDifficultyImprovementMy TimeMisfortunesKnowledgeableGothHavocGood LiteratureKnowledgeable Person Author:Francois Rabelais
“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.” WorldCareSchoolLawEducationShareCenturyCollegeBearsBenefitsLateToo LateSuffrageWoman Suffrage Author:Judith Ellen Foster
“I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.” WantNeedsYearsMayProblemJobsFormEducationClassFourMiddleCenturyFashionBrokenHigherSkillsDegreesMiddle ClassFour Years21st CenturyEducation SystemHigher Education Author:Marco Rubio
“Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.” EducationViolenceCenturyKeysHatredCycles21st Century20th CenturyPreventingCycle Of Violence Author:Elie Wiesel
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” InspirationalWritingPeaceChangeEducationAttitudeKnowledgeTechnologyLearningTeacherCenturyPositiveExperienceIntelligenceEducational21st CenturyLiteracyLife And LoveMy FutureSchoolingSelf EducationIlliteratePeace And JusticeSchooledPeace JusticeIlliteracyTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersUnschoolingFuturisticLifelong LearnerUnlearnLife LearningSchool EducationSchool LifeTeaching LearningArt EducationKnowledge EducationBeing A TeacherEducation And KnowledgeLearning To ReadLearn From The PastFuturistContinuous LearningValue Of EducationKnowledge LearningImportance Of EducationInspirational LearningTraining And EducationLife TeachesLearning MathTeacher MotivationalSignifyingGoing Back To SchoolFuture ShockLearning LifeMedia LiteracyLife Teaching Author:Alvin Toffler
“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.” IfsWayInspirationalFeelsHas BeensPastIndividualMistakeEducationTeachingSubjectsCenturyStudentsTreatsJustifiedBiggest Mistake Author:Howard Gardner
“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
“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.” IfsWorldFirstsEnergyChallengesEducationResponsibilityCreativityCenturyCitizensTwentiesEducationalLuxuryOur WorldCitizenshipLiteracyHarnessEducation And LiteracyReading And LiteracyEducation For All Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994