Illiteracy Quotes

72 Illiteracy quotes by 63 unique authors

A dog's best friend is his illiteracy. — Ogden Nash
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… — 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… — Timothy Thomas Fortune
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… — Angela Davis
I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy. — Ken Jennings
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every… — Mem Fox
Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to… — Richard Allington
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read… — Henry Giroux
Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them. — Nelson Mandela
Our real illiteracy is our inability to create — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. — Kailash Satyarthi
Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans,… — David Duke
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy. — Bill Kraus
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the… — George Steiner
Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep. — Northrop Frye
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. — Karen Black
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and… — Carrie P Snow
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification… — Clare Short
Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate. — Roseanne Barr
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… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of… — Naveen Jain
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy,… — Naveen Jain
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in… — Pratibha Patil
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. — Ezra Pound

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