The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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.
There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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