Educational Quotes

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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… — 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. — Hugh Mackay
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere — Koichiro Matsuura
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy. — Koichiro Matsuura
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — 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… — Koichiro Matsuura
I'd rather teach peace. — 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… — 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? — 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… — 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.… — Amartya Sen
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… — Kathleen Turner
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are… — Desmond Tutu
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… — 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. — Kofi Annan
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the… — Harry Belafonte
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… — 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… — William J. Clinton
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. — 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.… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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