International Literacy Day is observed on September 8 every year to raise awareness and concern for literacy problems that exist within our own local communities as well as globally. International Literacy Day 2020 focuses on “Literacy teaching and learning in the Covid-19 crisis. Due to school closures, educators are facing shortages and unfair changes to their working conditions. This year in the pandemic situation Literacy Day is dedicated to all those future and nation-building heroes.
International Literacy Day History:
International Literacy Day was founded by proclamation of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, in 1966 “to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights. The idea of an International Literacy Day was born at the World Conference of Ministers of Education on the eradication of illiteracy held in Tehran in 1965? This day was also adopted as the part of UN's sustainable development goals program in 2015.
READ SOME QUOTES ON LITERACY DAY:
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” Mark Twain
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Frederick Douglass
“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.” Abigail Adams
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.” Walter Tevis, Mockingbird
“Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?” Martin Freeman
“The function of education is to teach one to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“Education is the most powerful weapon for changing the world.”- Nelson Mendela
“Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.” - Barack Obama
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