Education And Literacy Quotes:

Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Knowledge, Opportunity, Empowering, Knowledge And Information, Education And Literacy

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

- Katherine Paterson

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Children, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Responsibility, Luxury, Literacy, Education And Literacy, Education For All

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

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Education, Patience, Learning To Read, Bad Temper

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

- Malcolm X

source: Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

topic: Children, Struggle, Mean, First Day Of School, Educated Person

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Reading, Bridges, Misery, Complement, Modern Education

The greatest sign of success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."

- Maria Montessori

source: "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Student

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

topic: Educational, Doors, Way, Education And Literacy, Active Citizenship

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

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.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Children, Mean, Men, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

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

- John Locke

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Education, Learning To Read, Knowledge And Learning

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And Learning

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Ruth Rendell

source: Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

topic: Reading, Book, Life Is, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading

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.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

topic: Wisdom, Silly, Reading, Independent Thought, Conformist

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

topic: Reading, Passion, Knowledge, Knowledge Of The World, Fluency

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

- Maria Montessori

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspirational Student, Inspiring Education

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.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

topic: Education, Teacher, Teaching, Public Education, Inspiring Education

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

- Grace Slick

topic: Retirement, Reading, Two, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

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.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Education, Inspirational Children, Inspirational Reading

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

- Ken Robinson

source: "Do schools kill creativity?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2006.

topic: Learning, Creativity, Important, Education And Literacy, Creativity And Learning

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

topic: Education, Development, Literacy, Education And Literacy, Education For All

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Literacy, Humans, Democratization, Education And Literacy, Basic Education

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Educational, Keys, Average, Maximum Effort, Education And Literacy

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

- Mortimer Adler

source: "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

topic: Inspirational, Good Life, Reading, Speed Reading, Book Reading

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann

source: "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

topic: Life, Happiness, Attitude, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

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

source: FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Jun 03, 2016

topic: Education, Teaching, Democracy, Cornerstones, Direct Democracy

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

- Wendell Phillips

topic: Education, Struggle, World, Children And Education, Early Education

The highest result of education is tolerance.

- Helen Keller

topic: Forgiveness, Education, Appreciation, Great Teacher, Patience And Tolerance

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.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Sympathy, Education, Children, Inspirational Teacher, Sympathy For A Friend

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

- Will Durant

topic: Graduation, Education, Witty, Medical Education, Inspirational Education

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

- Joseph Brodsky

source: "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

topic: Book, Reading, Burning, Martian Chronicles, Learning To Read

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

source: Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading

Words are the voice of the heart.

- Confucius

topic: Reading, Heart, Voice, Libraries And Reading, Libraries Books And Reading

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Reading, Book, Joy Of Reading, Libraries And Reading

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

- Kathleen Blanco

topic: Jobs, Educational, Thinking, Solutions To Poverty, Educated Person

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

- Sidney Sugarman

topic: Teacher, Children, Thinking, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

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

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.112, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

topic: Motivational, Education, Being Yourself, Education And Literacy

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Book, Reading, Forever, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

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

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher