Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Koichiro Matsuura

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese diplomat Koichiro Matsuura.
Last updated on November 17, 2024.
Koichiro Matsuura

Kōichirō Matsuura is a Japanese diplomat. He is the former Director-General of UNESCO. He was first elected in 1999 to a six-year term and reelected on 12 October 2005 for four years, following a reform instituted by the 29th session of the General Conference. In November 2009, he was replaced by Irina Bokova.

A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities.
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — © Koichiro Matsuura
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?
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