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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.”

“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

Years Important Matter Process Interest Support Learning Pieces Alive Childhood Middle Subjects Particular Skills Findings Technique Related Glowing Subject Matter

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.”

Giving Children Important Problem Remember Science Answers Mistake Learning Skills Importance Solve

Author:Roger Lewin

“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”

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

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

Difficult Leadership Simple Learning Skills Patience Acquire Difficult Things Simple Things Having Patience Life Patience Great Patience Short Patience

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.”

Love Inspirational Knowledge Practice Learning Doubt Skills And Love Inspirational Love

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”

Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success

“Skill to do comes of doing.”

Action Goal Learning Self Esteem Skills Educational Positive Attitude

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.”

Ifs Knows Life Long Ideas Moving Education Learning Growing Skills Excellence Insight Long Life Learners Achiever Teaching Learning New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Denis Waitley