Education Quote by Maureen McLaughlin

“Critical literacy focuses on issues of power and promotes reflection, transformation, and action.”

— Maureen McLaughlin

If you spend your life with academics, when you step outside, you realise there is this huge general readership that is almost impossible to…

— Tom Paulin

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

— Ma Jian

“To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own…

— Robert M. Fowler

I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic…

— Dean Spade

“One of the first things I learned when I began teaching courses in critical thinking in 1974 was that those of us trained in…

— Robert Carroll

There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to contest various…

— Henry Giroux

“Current thinking about reading (Luke & Freebody, 1999; Pearson, 2001) suggests that we should help our students to comprehend at these deeper levels—levels that…

— Maureen McLaughlin

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty,…

— Kofi Annan

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

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

Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are…

— Nicholas Royle