"Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were."

-- Hugh Mackay

#Writing Quotes #Skills Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.”
“By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.”
“I am a fool, fools tend to follow their hearts amidst ridicule.”
“I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?”
“I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.”
“Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.”
“It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.”

Source : "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.
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