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#illiteracy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #illiteracy




Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.


Karen Black


#illiteracy #out #people #rampant

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


Ronald Knox


#humour #illiteracy #pose

We live in a Jesus haunted culture that is Biblically illiterate, and so unfortunately at this point in time, almost anything can pass for knowledge of the historical Jesus from notions that he was a a Cynic sage to ideas that he was a Gnostic guru to fantasies that he didn't exist, to Dan Browne's Jesus of hysterical (rather than historical) fiction.


Ben Witherington III


#jesus #historical-fiction

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.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#educational #good #hands #illiteracy #illiterate

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


Ken Jennings


#geographic #i #illiteracy #kids #lifetime

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.


Eve Ensler


#illiteracy #oppression #women #women-s-rights #life

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.


Alberto Manguel


#dictators #illiteracy #reading #censorship

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 eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.


Alaa Al Aswany


#illiteracy #india

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.


Friedensreich Hundertwasser


#carrying #civilisation #disease #disintegration #forbidden

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.


Abdul Qadeer Khan


#hatred #help #illiteracy #intolerance #needy






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