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The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.
Writer. Another word for poor.
Our real illiteracy is our inability to create
I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.
Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
If literacy was natural, the word 'illiteracy' would not exist.
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.
Those who lack the guts to create critic.
Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.
It's a darn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate
they can't speak proper English,
people, the kind of man who
an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers".
Illiteracy is a fertile ground for manipulation
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community?
I wonder is illiterate people know the full meaning of alphabet soup?
They are people who literally enter books.
There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader
it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people.
a bunch of granola eaters who hate George Bush.
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I cared most about - books - but basically were moron-level elsewhere.
Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.
Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.
You won't comprehend the vitality of literacy until you marry an illiterate.
It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy ... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual.
Minds altogether horrible in their power, and in their ignorance - which their power protected.
Kids these days, right? Ignorant and in love with their ignorance.
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.
It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.
Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses; they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence.
People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success
that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.
In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.
The World needs Educated Persons not the Literate Ones
Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.
Staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond "awesome" and "sucks," which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough . . .
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards.
Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.
There are a lot of people who haven't got the brains for their educations.
Most people do not read; those who read do not understand; those who understand forget.
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.
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do
Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
If you're reading this book, it means you're more fortunate than the nearly one billion people in the world who can't read, many of whom will be stuck in a life of poverty.
uncultured youths who make random pronouncements on everything
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.
We are not quite conscious of the reason for our disdain when we refer to the illiterate past as wallowing in ignorance ... What divides us from them is the column of print. Theirs was a total culture involving all the senses, while ours is a culture concentrated in the literate eye.
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
Believers with nothing to believe in.
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'
Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words ...
It is the uninformed that drive around in radio frequency (RF) radiation filled cars.
People addicted with technology.
Technology has indulged mankind.
Beware of technology dependency!
those with no eyes to read readily are doomed
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
When a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it
many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.
Lazy journalists, they'll read stuff and get a quote then ask the same question again hoping I'll say a similar thing; it's very tiresome.
Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.
There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things:
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
Those with no knowledge
Has no thought
The more we see the more we're taught
There is an answer to every Question*
But some Questions are never asked
That's the worlds problems of today
Too many Questions are passed*
What the common man cannot understand he hates.
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.
People read with their ears, whether they know it or not,
These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.
Her darling little tech-savvy, consumerist savages.
Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers ...
The ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.
The world is full of incomprehensible words
Why aren't adults, even teachers, reading, and what is this doing to our students?