First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.
Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!
Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.
Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.
Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to. . . . A form of political illiteracy.
I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines. The Very first thing that our future national government will have to do is to set up a commission for drawing up a comprehensive plan for reconstruction.
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.
Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.
Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people. . . Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid. . . The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
