There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
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Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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.
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
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.
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
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