Achievement Quote by E. D. Hirsch, Jr

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

— Gunnar Myrdal

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

One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary…

— Paul Krugman

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are…

— Kofi Annan

“In spite of this, there is no doubt that the modern European and American system of universal education suffered from serious defects. In the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

— Hugh Mackay

If we were to compile a list of the ways in which the United States has made both itself and the wider world a…

— Timothy Noah

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our…

— Hugh Mackay

We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading…

— Barack Obama

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that…

— Robert M. Hutchins

If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

— Peter Diamandis

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of…

— Dalai Lama