The percentage of illiteracyis very great; and is equaled only by the most backward countries of southern Europe.
The bulk of our immigration is now made up of these people from Southern and Eastern Europe, among whom the illiteracy is high.
Nearly all of the native white illiterates in the United States are found in the Southern states, the white illiteracy in the Northern states being practically confined to the foreign born.
Connected more or less with this fact of illiteracy is the number in our population who cannot speak English.
Missouri, while in Massachusetts the percentage of negro illiteracy was only 10 per cent.
We have already seen that illiteracy for the native white population is much less in our cities than in the rural districts.
Immigration has very largely aided in maintaining a considerable amount of illiteracy in the United States in spite of the effects of the propaganda for popular education which has been carried on now for the last fifty years or more.
Statistics of illiteracy for our cities show the same results.
As we have already seen, the rate of illiteracy among certain of our recent immigrants is so high that they can scarcely be expected to participate in our social life.
Immigration should be further restricted by an illiteracy test.
The United States should further restrict immigration by an illiteracy test.
The white people, as well as the colored, need missionary schools, as the illiteracy among them is appalling.
How strange, that in localities in which there is such frightful illiteracythe school authorities should fail to welcome, with large-hearted cordiality, teachers who come among them.
Literacy courses were continued until late 1958, when the government officially declared that illiteracy had been eliminated.
There was also a fairly large percentage of children who left school without completing their studies or, having completed only the mandatory first four grades, relapsed into illiteracyin adult life.
Despite this authoritative statement, Western demographers consider that, although illiteracy has been significantly reduced, it probably still exists among older segments of the population, particularly in remote areas of the country.
Foremost among the basic aims were the eradication of illiteracy and the broadening of the educational base to include all children of school age.
In rural areas, where most of the population lived, it was generally considered that the illiteracy rate was even higher.
An intensive campaign to eradicate illiteracy was undertaken and, according to the government, was successfully concluded by 1958.
There is almost no illiteracy within the adult population under fifty-five years of age.
While in every way the general work of reaching the masses and saving them from their illiteracy is to be pressed, the time has come to place these leading schools upon a firmer foundation and to make them more conspicuous as centres.
And yet three-fourths of the illiteracy of the whole nation must be grappled with.
There is much illiteracy among the older people, but through the Mission schools and the improved educational system of the states, comparatively few children now are lacking the opportunity of some elementary education.
The Commission has launched an educational campaign with the watch-word "Illiteracy eliminated in 1920.
A number of Southern states have recently made earnest efforts to reduce the percentage of illiteracywithin their borders.
In some Western states the percentage of illiteracy is as low as one-tenth of 1 per cent.
The story of what was accomplished in a campaign for the elimination of illiteracy in Rowan County, one of the most backward mountain counties in Kentucky, is both picturesque and instructive.
It is startling to find that the United States census for 1910 reports a greater percentage of illiteracy among native whites of native parentage than among native whites of foreign parentage.
Through the eradication of illiteracy and the diffusion of education mankind has reached a stage where we may fairly say that in the United States equality of opportunity has been attained, though all are not prepared to embrace it.
The percentage of Negro illiteracyin America is less than any one of these foreign races.
As the result of this good school system, Missouri stood last among the sixteen ex-slave States in illiteracy in 1890.
The illiteracy for all Negro children was 25 per cent, whereas the illiteracy for all white children was only 10.
The illiteracy of our Negroes does not seem so great when a comparison is made with some foreign countries:[72] Race Illiteracy Negroes 30.
The criminality of the Negro seemingly has decreased as the illiteracy has decreased.
True, there is still an appalling illiteracy among them, some 70 per cent.
The illiteracy in this race diminished 10 per cent.
Illiteracy also, in the Eighteen Counties, is excessive.
The sad fact is not to be blinked that, with the enormous increase of the colored population, the illiteracy among them is greater to-day than at the close of the rebellion.
It is an encouraging fact that in the region surrounding our chartered and normal schools illiteracy is steadily diminishing.
It is an ominous fact that in the South illiteracy is steadily increasing.
The general Negro illiteracy is gaining fast upon the white ignorance, and the despised Negro is found to be living above many of his illiterate white neighbors.
As a people there is moreilliteracy among them; but when he goes to school the southern Italian holds his own with the northern.
Sidenote: The Reading Test Pro and Con] The section in this proposed legislation that has caused most discussion and dissension is the illiteracy test.
These peoples come out of conditions of oppression and depression, illiteracy and poverty.
Illiteracy is a worse reflection upon the foreign government than upon the foreign immigrant.
And they have only just begun; the rate of illiteracy of the state, as in all the South, is still excessive among both white and coloured people.
The actual building of new school-houses and the expenditure of more money for the struggle with illiteracy is only one of many results.
The illiteracy of our white foreign-born population is recorded at 12.
As a related element of interest in the study of the war from a cultural as well as a military angle the illiteracy of some of the contesting and neutral nations bears strongly on the question: France 14.
At present her percentage of illiteracy is disgracefully large.
The illiteracy in his state compares favorably with that in the states under British administration, and the graduates from the Maharaja's college compete successfully in the examinations with the graduates from other colleges.
The percentage ofilliteracy is everywhere steadily decreasing.
There is no general educational system in Korea, and the percentage of illiteracy is naturally large.
The illiteracy of the Indian people is a disgrace to the proud nation which has for a century and a half controlled their destiny.
They acquired from their Swedish conquerors a fondness for the public school, and the percentage of illiteracy is much less in Finland than in other parts of Russia, under whose dominion they unwillingly came in 1808.
Claxton, Commissioner of Education, in his analysis of the illiteracy figures of the census, said: "Illiteracy is not confined to any one race or class or section.
Illiteracy is a pick-and-shovel estate, a life sentence to meniality.
Of Illiteracy and Mormonism, a brochure from the pen of Doctor Henry Randall Waite, just published by D.
Negro illiteracy in the corresponding divisions is 36.
It does appear, however, that the proportion of negroilliteracy is not entirely his fault.
This comparison is not fair to the negro, however, for illiteracy in the urban communities in the United States is less than in the rural districts, owing largely to better educational facilities in the cities; and 82.
In the urban communities of these divisions, illiteracy on the part of both whites and negroes is less.
The status of public education in the South in 1860, it is true, was not satisfactory, and the percentage of illiteracy was high.
The percentage of native whiteilliteracy in the rural districts of the South Atlantic States is 9.
It is certain that the percentage of illiteracy was at least 90, and possibly as high as 95.
It is evident, then, that as the negroes now fifty years old and over die off, the illiteracy of the whole mass will continue to drop, for it is in the older group that the percentage of illiterates is highest.
This illiteracy is one cause of their poverty, but not the only cause: a part of it is moral, involving a lack of steadfast purpose, and a part is physical.
The percentage of negro illiteracy was falling, because it could not easily be raised, but the reduction of white illiteracy was slow.
Then, too, the great masses of negroes live in States which are predominantly rural and in which the percentage of white illiteracy is also high.
Since the percentage of native white illiteracy in the United States is but 3, the negro is evidently ten times as illiterate as the native white.
He has also proclaimed the principle that all mankind shall be educated and that no illiteracy be allowed to remain.
Through the broadening spirit of education illiteracy will disappear, and misunderstandings due to ignorance will pass away.
What is being done in your community and in your state to eradicate illiteracy and to teach English to foreigners?
The selfish gods of fortune doomed the Promethean masses to cruel and hopeless bonds of ignorance and illiteracy forever.
Illiteracy in the home:—Resulting from so many people not joining the C.
The least illiteracy today is to be found among the people in the countries to the north and west of Europe, and of Teutonic or mixed Teutonic stock.
Quoting further from the Cyclopedia we learn that "in Turkey, India, and China we find a high illiteracy among the males, and an almost complete illiteracy among the females.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illiteracy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
