My old friend George Jonas, now forcibly confined within the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, observed of the times:
In the not too distant past, people who were illiterate could neither read nor write. These days they can, with disastrous results for the culture.
He quoted his own old friend Stephen Vizinczey:
No amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
David Warren, “On paper logic”, Essays in Idleness, 2020-02-22.
February 3, 2025
QotD: Illiteracy then and illiteracy now
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