#illiteracy

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country. ↗

— Danny Glover

#among #country #environmentally #find #going

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#authoritative #community #expert #global #illiteracy

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

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

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

— Ronald Knox

#humour #illiteracy #pose

Beware the man of a single book. ↗

— St. Thomas Aquinas

#ignorance #illiteracy #limitation #ignorance

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

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

— Elbert Hubbard

#illiteracy #reading #money

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

— Joseph Brodsky

#censorship #illiteracy #reading #read