“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
“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?” EndsPastWishProcessImpossibleModernCenturyProductsEndurePoetry IsTransitionExtensionsRomanticismRomantic PoetryModern Poetry Author:Randall Jarrell
“For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.” Has BeensStatesRealityUsedWishNaturalCenturyPrejudiceAffairUsers Author:Eva Figes
“The most controversial issues of the twenty-first century will pertain to the ends and means of modifying human behavior and who shall determine them. The first educational question will not be 'what knowledge is of the most worth?' but 'what kinds of human beings do we wish to produce?' The possibilities virtually defy our imagination.” FirstsHumansKindMeanEndsWishImaginationHuman BeingsIssuesCenturyPossibilityProduceBehaviorTwentiesDetermineEducationalHuman BehaviorControversialModifyingControversial IssuesEnds And Means Author:John Goodlad