Quotes on Education And Literacy

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.

Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.