--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me.
--Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class.
--Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty?
--No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment.
--Not in this house.

Amor Towles

Mots clés reading books sex literacy entertainment class working-class classes

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Even if you have to die tomorrow; die as a literate.

M.F. Moonzajer

Mots clés education literacy die tomorrow literate

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A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

C.P. Snow

Mots clés humor science shakespeare literacy funny illiteracy scientists culture william-shakespeare thermodynamics standards double-standard educated second-law-of-thermodynamics

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Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact…

Charles Babbage

Mots clés science politics knowledge literacy ignorance scientific-literacy scientific-knowledge

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