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Illiteracy Quotes

Karen Black quote: "Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication."
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. Karen Black
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any... Carl Sagan
Harlan Ellison quote: "In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional..."
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony. Harlan Ellison
A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct. George Steiner
The rich does not work for money, but money work for them...., While the poor work for money. Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle...., Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward... or if i stopped working today, how could i survive?..., Wealth is the measure of cash flow from to asset column compared with the expense column..., Robert Kiyosaki
Not a thousand years ago, it was illegal to teach a slave to read. Not a thousand years ago, the Supreme Court decided that separate could not be equal. And today, as we sit here, no one is learning anything in this country. You see a nation which is the leader of the rest of the world, that had to pay the price of that ticket, and the price of that ticket is we're sitting in the most illiterate nation in the world. THE MOST ILLITERATE NATION IN THE WORLD. A monument to illiteracy. And... James Baldwin
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science. Jawaharlal Nehru
Neil Gaiman quote: "I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the..."
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. Neil Gaiman
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger. John Waters
Maya Angelou quote: "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but..."
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. Maya Angelou
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country. Danny Glover
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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. Timothy Thomas Fortune
Ezra Pound quote: "In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as..."
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Ezra Pound
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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