#racy

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. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#available #capacities #children #encouraged #equipped

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#australians #because #communicate #culture #effectively

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#best #child #every #given #literacy

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? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#actually #bold #central #continue #culture

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. ↗

— James Madison

#administer #assemble #citizens #consisting #democracy

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need. ↗

— Bill Maher

#bureaucracy #god #i #man #me

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#concerned #democracy #eat #educated #egypt

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#democracy #direction #eases #education #final

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#administration #darkness #dawn #democracy #emanated