{"id":55212,"date":"2025-02-03T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=55212"},"modified":"2025-02-02T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T15:39:51","slug":"qotd-illiteracy-then-and-illiteracy-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/02\/03\/qotd-illiteracy-then-and-illiteracy-now\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Illiteracy then and illiteracy now"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>My old friend George Jonas, now forcibly confined within the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, observed of the times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He quoted his own old friend Stephen Vizinczey:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>No amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2020\/02\/22\/on-paper-logic\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On paper logic&#8221;, <em>Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2020-02-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,57,41],"tags":[1129,764],"class_list":["post-55212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-iq","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-emw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93932,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55212\/revisions\/93932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}