Action Quote by Hugh Mackay

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…

— William J. Clinton

Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and…

— Deray McKesson

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.

— Isaac Asimov

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

— Peter Diamandis

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

— Isaac Asimov

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full…

— Kofi Annan

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

— David Warlick

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge.…

— Peter Diamandis

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

— Peter Diamandis

“If our schools continue to limit the literacy curriculum to reading and writing traditional, alphabetic, printed texts, then our children will be well prepared…

— Elizabeth A. Baker

Education brings sustainability to all the development goals, and literacy is the foundation of all learning. It provides individuals with the skills to understand…

— Irina Bokova

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is…

— E. D. Hirsch, Jr