29 Quotes About Illiteracy

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine. Sunday Adelaja

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 to read anything is the basic trouble. Peter S. Jennison

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

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

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it. Trevor Noah

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

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. Nicole Peeler

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 incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?. C.P. Snow

Beware the man of a single book. Thomas Aquinas

First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmful to the well-being of mankind. Taking its root in the lower classes, the religion continues to spread among the vulgar: nay, one can even say it spreads because of its vulgarity and the illiteracy of its adherents. And while there are a few moderate, reasonable, and intelligent people who interpret its beliefs allegorically, yet it thrives in its purer form among the ignorant. . Celsus

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. Chris Hedges

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

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 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. Paul Bamikole

If literacy was natural, the word ‘illiteracy’ would not exist. T.K. Naliaka

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. M.F. Moonzajer

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication. Karen Black