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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

 

* Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-- Nelson Mandela

* “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

* "As 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

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

 

I'd rather teach peace.
-- Colman McCarthy

* Unless we teach children peace, someone else will teach them violence.
-- Colman McCarthy

* "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

 

* “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

* "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!
-- Sir Roger Moore

* 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

* Education is a vaccine for violence.
-- Edward James Olmos

"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)

 

* 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

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

* 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

* "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

* “More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given”
-- 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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