55 Quotes About Illiteracy

"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 antagonistic entities that no longer speak the same language and cannot communicate. This is the divide between a literate, marginalized minority and those who have been consumed by an illiterate mass culture."

"The donkey heard the book gives wisdom and ate it."

"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."

"Through their intellectual disability or mental illiteracy, some cannot free themselves from the imprisonment of irrevocable idiocy and feel condemned to find gratifying compensation by extracting the vilest qualities from the deep quarters of their dark self. ("Ugly mug offense")"

"You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy."

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

"Kids had made fun of him in elementary school because his father wanted him to be literate, not just functionally literate, or 'iconerate,' the new term for those who went through life using only symbols and key words for written communication."

"Illiteracy also means not being able to read or write the words of a language you neither speak nor understand. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu"

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