Top Illiteracy Quotes

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

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their i...

Illiteracy Definition

(n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

(n.) An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

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 scop...

I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.

The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

Beware the man of a single book.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.

More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and a...