America Quote by James Purdy

Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

— Roseanne Barr

You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you…

— John Ruskin

Alliteration seems to offend people.

— Dean Koontz

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

— John Green

I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to…

— Bennett Cerf

Illiterates have to dictate.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.”

— Sunday Adelaja

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to…

— Henry Giroux

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush

There is more to literacy than 'reading' and 'writing'.

— Strive Masiyiwa

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

— Karen Black