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 need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to...
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.
I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
One winter I wrapped myself in newspaper, for warmth and for illiteracy.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist.
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the sam...
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses; they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence.
Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.
Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.
In the shimmering ignorance of illiteracy of compassion and faith the stoic desire of loving without temporal gains rules the hearts and minds in deeds and care
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 education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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.
