Celebrate Quote by Koichiro Matsuura

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

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the…

— Kevin Gates

The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to…

— Robert Hass

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

— Thomas Steinbeck

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

— 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…

— Koichiro Matsuura

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

— Koichiro Matsuura

As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty,…

— Koichiro Matsuura

“Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression,…

— Koichiro Matsuura

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies…

— Koichiro Matsuura

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal…

— Alan Greenspan

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people,…

— Anthony Horowitz

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

— Margaret Atwood

Love of books is the best of all.

— Jackie Kennedy