The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'
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.
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
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