When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
More people should use their library.
These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.
Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000.
T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
literacy is at the heart of sustainable development
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.
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 to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
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.
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
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 and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
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 school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another.
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