#literacy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #literacy




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

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.


Marshall McLuhan


#literacy #may #necessary #schizophrenia

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.


Grace Slick


#begin #between #literacy #music #reach

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

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.


Strickland Gillian


#literacy #love #mother #quote #reading

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.


Vera Nazarian


#books #education #enlightenment #light #literacy

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.


Aberjhani


#dancing #famous-poets #famous-quotes #literacy #music

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.


Maya Angelou


#always #college #educated #go #i

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.


Karen Black


#illiteracy #out #people #rampant