Book Quote by Sasha Grey

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance…

— Naveen Jain

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

— Mary McCarthy

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made…

— Anonymous

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

— 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…

— Henry Giroux

Illiteracy causes violence. If you don't have enough words in your vocabulary, you can't even seek your way out of a situation.

— KRS-One

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more…

— Maya Angelou

“If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.”

— T.K. Naliaka

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange…

— Richard Mitchell

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

— Sunday Adelaja

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't…

— Alaa Al Aswany

There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here'…

— James Patterson