Quotes on “illiteracy”

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.