In both sexes, the proportion ofilliterates was lower than that prevailing among the other immigrant peoples.
Contrary to what is generally believed in foreign countries education is obligatory in Turkey and there are fewer illiterates among the Turks than, for instance, among Russians and other Near Eastern people.
Becoming county superintendent, she set about to lead out of ignorance and darkness the adult illiterates of her county.
This lad in his teens was only one of many adult illiterates taught by the Ohio woman and her plan proved that it could be done.
The great men in this still unexplored Utopia may be but village Hampdens in our own, and earthly goatherds and obscure illiterates sit here in the seats of the mighty.
All Utopians will be reasonably well educated upon Utopian lines; there will be no illiterates unless they are unteachable imbeciles, no rule-of-thumb toilers as inadaptable as trained beasts.
Sixteen daily and weekly Italian newspapers in New York alone indicate that the people are reading, and that not all are illiterates by any means.
The army ofilliterates would repeople Delaware and Nevada.
This mass of dense ignorance was distributed some way within a year, and more illiterates are coming in by every steamer.
Most of these illiterates will never learn to read, as they are beyond the school age.
Then, in his opinion, there is something to be said for the illiterates who remain here.
Suppose we bring together into one place the illiterates of 1905--the immigrants of all nationalities, over fourteen years of age, who could neither read nor write.
In some states illiterates are denied the right to vote.
Boston had more illiterates than Baltimore, Pittsburgh more than New Orleans, Fall River more than Birmingham, Providence nearly twice as many as Nashville, and the city of Washington 5,000 more than the city of Memphis.
He remembered telling Vivian Harrison, over the consomme, that pearls did not make oysters happy and that these illiterates of the hills might have hidden wealth in the shells of their isolation and gain nothing more than the oyster.
If any of you question that last statement, you can merely ask yourselves one question: How, in the name of all that is rational, can Illiterates control and operate a system of socialized Literacy?
And if we have the Illiterates split into two hostile factions--" Cardon finished his coffee.
Then he must have noticed some of the store Illiterates back of Prestonby, and realized that this offer of help to Literacy's worst enemy would arouse suspicion.
A buzzer drew one of the Illiterates to a handphone.
And finally, the illiterates had become Illiterates, and literacy had become Literacy.
We've got to keep the Illiterates down; how are we ever going to do that if we go making Literates out of them?
The next consideration is as to the cause of this large percentage of illiterates among the native white population of the United States.
If account be taken of all these elements, I think the percentage of illiterates proper to be charged up to the English language and American institutions would be reduced to about 3-1/4 per cent.
Also the percentage of negro illiteracy is higher in northern Georgia than in other parts of the state, the percentage of negro male illiterates of voting age being 38.
Of the illiterates about four-fifths were negroes in 1900.
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.
The number of illiterates from different countries varies greatly.
This is shown sufficiently by the fact that illiterates are much more liable to commit crime than those who have a fair education.
In one quarter of Donegal, a Catholic one, more illiterates than in all Scotland.
And don't forget that the illiterates have the power in their hands.
Many more people than previous records mention become (or remain) illiterates after finishing the required years of schooling-a minimum of ten years-and even after graduating from college.
Illiterates used to be excluded from voting, along with women, Blacks in America and South Africa, and foreigners in a large number of European countries.
The common way for illiterates to sign is to wet the tip of one finger with ink from a pen, and then touch the document (leaving a small black blot) where we touch a wafer.
The Filipinos have no larger percentage of illiterates than Spain of those who can not read and write.
The illiterates are withdrawn at this point to be given examinations for manual skill.
If any fail to make a satisfactory showing, they are grouped with the illiterates who were separated from the rest of the group after the preliminary examination.
Other States allowed a limited time in which to register on a permanent roll, after which all illiterateswere to be disfranchised.
Immediately after any literate Republican, white or black, left the polling place the boxes were shifted, and the illiterates whose tickets he had carefully arranged deposited their ballots in the wrong boxes.
The number of illiterates had fallen proportionately and actually, and ten years more of uninterrupted work would have done much to remove the stigma of illiteracy.
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.
Mr. Blankenburg gave statistics of the illiterates in the United States and said: "An educational qualification, wisely considered, would within a few years entirely obliterate the whole mass of this species of undesirable voters.
In the United States of America, there are 106 illiteratesto every thousand people.
A doctor who was deeply interested in the teaching of Chinese illiterates took steps to have the illiterate convalescents in his hospital taught to read.
Illiterates are not the only people who might profit by Christian teaching, classes for literates might be equally valuable.
The work would include the teaching of illiterates to read, and instructing convalescents of higher education either in classes or individually.
During the six decades between liberation and World War II, the educational system had made great progress in providing basic education to young people, but there remained a hard core of illiterates in the adult population.
In 1965 there were three times as many illiterates in rural areas as in urban.
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