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September 8 was proclaimed International Literacy Day by UNESCO on November 17, 1965. It was first celebrated in 1966. Its aim is to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. On International Literacy Day each year, UNESCO reminds the international community of the status of literacy and adult learning globally. Celebrations take place around the world

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-- Abigail Adams

Thomas Carlyle: "All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books."

Mark Twain: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

Groucho Marx: "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Abraham Lincoln: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." 

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
-- Peter F. Drucker

“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”
-- W. E. B. DuBois

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."
-- W. E. B. DuBois

"Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens."
- President Bill Clinton on International Literacy Day, September 8th 1994

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”
-- William S. Boroughs

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne

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.
-- Governor Kathleen Blanco

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."
-- Baron Henry Peter Brougham

"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."
~ Kofi Annan