Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

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?

Kofi Annan

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.

Kofi Annan

Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

Kofi Annan

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

Kofi Annan

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Kofi Annan

Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, is essential to development and health, and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship.

Kofi Annan

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

Kofi Annan

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Roger Bacon

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.

Rupert Murdoch

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

Rush Limbaugh

I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks.

Rush Limbaugh

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

Rush Limbaugh

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

Thomas Carlyle

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Thomas Carlyle

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Thomas Carlyle

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

Thomas Carlyle

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

Thomas Carlyle

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Tony Hsieh

Zappos uses call center technology to track average call time per agent. But the goal isn't to reduce this average - it's more important that we make an emotional connection with the customer, rather than just quickly getting them off the phone.

Tony Buzan

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Tom Wopat

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Steve Berry

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Stephen Hawking

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Stephen King

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

Sigrid Undset

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

Lionel Richie

When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.

Linda Ronstadt

My feeling about school was that it interfered with my reading.

Leon Botstein

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.