Quotes on Literacy

The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own

On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

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.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.