Illiteracy Quotes

Illiteracy Quote of the day

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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 the world.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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

Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

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.

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

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.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

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.

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

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.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Beware the man of a single book.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

Our visual and musical artists have no incentive to be educated. So what we get is a bunch of uneducated artists inspiring misinformation, miseducation and illiteracy.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.

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

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Illiteracy is the number one promoter of ignorance.

Fight against illiteracy.

Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.