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“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.”

“Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

“The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have access to a tool that people use as a weapon against you. The only reason I was never taught to read and write was because it was easier for them to lead me. But the second I learned to read and write, I began to lead myself.”

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”