Obviously,
every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy
skills.
-- Hugh Mackay
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.
-- Hugh Mackay
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
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Education
is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world.
-- Nelson
Mandela
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“I
don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an
organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of
our children controls our future.”
-- Wilma
Mankiller |
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an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and
socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty,
and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities."
-- Koïchiro
Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General
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International
Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals,
communities and societies everywhere
-- Koïchiro
Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General
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 if so many
remain without the basic tools of literacy?
-- Koïchiro
Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General
it is inconceivable
that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances
in literacy.
-- Koïchiro
Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral
challenges of our times.
-- Koïchiro
Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General
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.
-- Koïchiro
Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General
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"Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also
have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is
only partly solved."
~ Margaret
Mead (1901-1978) US anthropologist, author, environmentalist. |
| "...Why is compassion
not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion,
awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of
any real civilisation, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church,
but belonging to everyone, every child in every school."
-- Yehudi
Menuhin |  |
"Literacy is not,
as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It
is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue
understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes
and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments."
--
Richard Mitchell
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““One test of the correctness
of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”
– Maria
Montessori
Establishing
lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of
war.”
– Maria
Montessori |
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"Teach
love, generosity, good manners and some of that will
drift from the classroom to the home and who knows,
the children will be educating the parents. Lets face
it; the children who do that are the hope of tomorrow."
-- Sir
Roger Moore
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! Roger Moore
-- Sir
Roger Moore
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We have an obligation and
a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make
sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money,
can still get the best education possible.
-- Barack
Obama |
"The principle goal
of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply
of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive
and discoverers"
-- Jean Piaget (Swiss Psychologist and pioneer in the study
of child intelligence, 1896-1980)
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Thinking about how the world might be and envisioning
a society characterized by justice are the essence
of conceptualizing the conditions that comprise positive
peace. If we are to educate for peace, both teachers
and students need to have some notion of the transformed
world we are educating for.
-- Betty
Reardon
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are
we doing enough to help our children create a more peaceful world?
-- Debbie
Robins What is
truly more important, how our children do on standardized tests or what kind of
human beings they are and will become? I believe it is our obligation, as mothers,
to get peace into our classrooms so our children can study, learn and practice
peace. Then, and only then, can we rest assured they will fulfill their divine
destinies as peacemakers and the world will become a more peaceful place.
--
Debbie Robins |
our children are
viscerally aware of the heightened violence on this planet. It has permeated every
aspect of their lives. They are hungry to make a difference, desperate to affect
their reality in a positive way, but they are unsure of how to do it.
-- Debbie
Robins
What
is the solution? To make peace a class, in every school, at every grade level,
in classrooms all over the world so our children can learn the 'art' of getting
along, which isn't easy, reflected by the current state of the world
-- Debbie
Robins
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Tolerance,
respect and patience are acquired skills, they are learned
attributes, practiced choices, and until our children begin
to study, learn and practice peace, I believe this is as
good as it gets.
-- Debbie
Robins
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"It
is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom
achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of
creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the
young. "
-- Bertrand
Russell |
| Education is critical
for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't
know the reality, how can you help?
-- Marla
Ruzicka
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Literacy
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