"How It Really Is"

 

Read a book? LOL! That'll be the day!

"Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2023.

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2023.

54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level."

- https://www.thinkimpact.com/literacy-statistics/

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't 

even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny 

doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."

- Thomas Sowell

"Back when I taught at UCLA, I was constantly amazed at how little so many students knew. Finally, I could no longer restrain myself from asking a student the question that had long puzzled me: ''What were you doing for the last 12 years before you got here?''

- Thomas Sowell

"Five percent of the people think; 

ten percent of the people think they think; 

and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think."

- Thomas Edison