Low Literacy Quotes

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

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

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

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.

I am not a big reader to begin with.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

Russian literacy in the early twentieth century remained below 33 percent—lower than that of Great Britain in the eighteenth century.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

In our tribal areas the literacy rate among women is 3%; among men, 17%; and there is no economy.

As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - practically no one could read or write. And even in New England, the overall rate was only about 60 percent. That still means four out of 10 people couldn't put their name to a will.

I didn’t have much school. Three years.

I only finished first grade.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

Because hip-hop has no requirements, you deal with people that have the least intelligence on the planet. Some of the people that compare themselves to me, compare themselves to me because they rap and I rap. They can't even read the contracts that they sign to be a rapper, to do the deal.