Roseanne Barr Quotes

One of the things that amazes me is the amount of functional illiteracy in this country... people can't read to get around, or people who can't read the newspaper but can barely read street signs.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

I hope someday we can stamp out illiteracy in America. Of course you'll have to kill alot of my relatives to do it.

We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

The policy of rewarding those who learn to read and write by giving them a chance to vote remain in operation in New England for many years as an influence tending to reduce illiteracy

The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

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.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma.

The illiterate leave few records.

It was a shock to visit a Job Corps camp and see adults who had been through some years of our public education system stare at a blackboard where a teacher was writing CAT or helping them write their own names. In another room men were learning to tell time.