Functional Illiteracy Quotes

#1. As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

May-Britt Moser

#2. In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy ... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Harlan Ellison

#3. The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

William Lyon Phelps

#4. Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#5. Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world.

Niall Ferguson

#6. And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

John Milton

#7. Silence is refreshment for the soul.

Wynonna Judd

#8. I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to
and that is what adventures are all about.

Trina Schart Hyman

#9. The race needs workers, not leaders.

Carter G. Woodson

#10. Numbers never lie; one can make them, of course, as one can make anything speak another story in another tongue, but they do not have the inherent falsehood that words carry.

Neel Mukherjee

#11. Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life.

Martin Buxbaum