Ability-1

And
She's treading on still..

As has been so far
Deafly unconcerned
Along a road, in the cab, in the shop
Anywhere
Unbeaten by deafening noise
Unbothered of scolding, mocking, joking, shirking

Others blaring in
searching a piece of sound
Fathoming her ears

Unknowingly that

She the queen
Her dictatorship bejeweled, bedecked
Slamming everybody at her feet
Her best familial way

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poem by Indira Renganathan
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

quote by Alan Greenspan
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Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

quote by Ron Lewis
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Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

quote by Abdul Qadeer Khan
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The good breed hardly dies.

With advent of democracy and literacy,
Went in decline the Brahmin authority.
Yet, the rest submit to their purity and nobility.
The well reared are not the well bred.
08.10.2000

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

quote by Aleister Crowley
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Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

quote by Donald E. Westlake
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

quote by Walter Lippmann
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

quote by Jimmy Carter
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Enterprising Education..

Trickle the wealth capitalists say
Limiting the wealth is socialist way
Distribute it the communists say
Capture it for self is all their game

Making everyone rich or poor
Dependent on some other
Is not the way to empower!
Growing people with power
Is the need of the hour..

Power is neither wisdom nor wealth
Neither vote nor health
Power neither grows on guns
Nor it does on just bread and buns.

*****
The ability to spot a need
The ability to create a feed
The ability to serve with speed

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poem by TheBigThinkg Human
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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

quote by William Faulkner
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

quote by Alan Moore
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After Gaetan Picon

All seeing is joy
when it is simply seeing.
It is from the mind
that the trouble comes.

When it is simply seeing
the eye is lucid, whole;
the trouble comes
when the mind divides.

The eye is lucid, whole,
illiterate, agnostic;
where the mind divides,
the worm of blindness enters.

Illiterate, agnostic,
the stunned eye falters;
enter the worm, blindness,
the serpent, text.

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poem by Eric Torgersen
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

quote by Alvin Toffler
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The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

quote by Hugh Mackay
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Education

How hard it is,
To learn and write,
To prepare and fight,
The evil exams!
The book so thick
Studying it makes us feel sick,
Everything comes to an end
But, why not education?
They say learning is like a sinking star
But to us, studying
Is always like a war..
Now, here we are hating and cursing
But still not losing
Cause of our value education…
It is double valuable
If we give it as Dedication,
Think of many who has not seen books
Who has always been in hooks
Of illiteracy,
But here we are able but still

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poem by Shalini Kts
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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.

quote by Hugh Mackay
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

quote by P.J. O'Rourke
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Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

quote by Timothy Thomas Fortune
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

quote by Maya Angelou
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