Illiteracy
From BookJive
Illiteracy is a pandemic not stealing health or life but leaving many great minds undiscovered and uncultivated. I recently read John Howard Griffin's bestseller Black Like Me. This quote made an impression on my soul.
“You deprive a man of educational opportunities and he'll have no knowledge of the great civilizing influences of art, history, literature and philosophy....With practically nothing to exalt the mind or exercise the spirit, any man is going to sink to his lowest depths.”
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Facts:
- 75% of unemployed adults have reading or writing difficulties.
- 60% of America's inmates are illterate, and 85% of all juvenile offenders have problems with illiteracy.
- The per capita income in countries with a literacy rate less than 55 percent averages about $600.
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