Sentences with word «illiterate»

We have left our people functionally illiterate in using the Bible.

Based on all the data on the depths of the nation's education crisis — including the fact that three out of every 10 fourth - graders are functionally illiterate as well as how traditional policies and practices keep laggard teachers in classrooms — you would think valid criticism, internal and external, would be welcomed.

While the proportion of illiterate people on the planet has declined over the past 70 years, the absolute number has remained stubbornly unchanged.»

It is usually the computer illiterate who use it.

Up until a year ago I was just as financially illiterate as the next guy.

It is well known how biblically illiterate so many christians are.

Perfect for scaring the scientifically illiterate who make up such a high proportion of Believers.

The problem economically illiterate folks like you have is that can you can't grasp the fact its going to cost many small business owners who struggle to pay bills upwards of $ 6,000 an employee a year.

, Jesus wasn't illiterate just because you want to post your flawed reasoning.

We're so illiterate as far as music and musical history goes, so that's helped us a lot to discover music in our own way and the music that comes out of us is truly our music.

Yet, there are six million functionally illiterate adults in the UK at an estimated cost of # 2.5 billion a year to the country.

And for that we need a government which does not get embarrassed discussing it, or opt instead for technologically illiterate solutions like internet filtering systems.

The books in the law libraries would serve a much more socially useful function as cooking fuel than they do being gawped at by illiterate students.

Photography and photo - graphics — a substantial selection of picture newspapers and magazines, designed with a largely illiterate population in mind, is included — increasingly became restricted to Soviet propaganda purposes.

These findings were obtained in a large - scale study in which completely illiterate women in India learned how to read and write for six months.

Yes, the United States is largely illiterate when it comes to managing their personal finances due to a confluence of overspending and underinvesting.

Prisons have the highest concentration of illiterate men in our country.

These were mostly illiterate people.

I know he's had issues with his own bestsellers with illiterate Americans complaining about «misspellings» because he used Commonwealth spellings.

After attending many workshops and being involved on a personal level with NVC, we have learned just how illiterate most of us are when it comes to knowing what our needs are, let alone identifying them with the correct words.

Ben Bernanke either does not get markets, or is hiding what he knows from economic illiterates.

He faced questions after inspectors Estyn said a fifth of children were functionally illiterate when they arrived at secondary school.

Our study also reported that children of illiterate parents were more likely to develop psychosocial dysfunction compared to the off - springs of literate parents (AORfather = 2.10, 95 % CI = 1.12 — 3.96, AORmother = 2.77, 95 % CI = 1.72 — 4.50) which is comparable with an Indian study (31).

People like Danny Hillis, however well intentioned they might be, terrify me as well, even more so than those who are ignorant and scientifically illiterate because they seem to be oblivious to the laws of unintended consequences.

Professor Espada takes pride in teaching nearly illiterate men to read, in counseling younger inmates, and in helping others work through their cases in the library.

While some of these programs can be said to be effective in raising awareness on global education, however records shows that most of these programs focus more on literate youths in urban rich communities, leaving many illiterate youths especially in rural and urban slums with little or no access to such programs.

«There was a point, he told me, where after spending nearly $ 200,000, he felt like, «I am completely illiterate in something that I have so many ideas in, in an area that is the future, and in an area where if I want to continue building things then I need to be able to speak the language,»» Poonawala said.

The truth is, every day America's 95 million investors make unconscious choices to remain illiterate about simple money matters like savings, asset allocation, expenses, retirement, the stupidity of market timing, etc..

Thanks for the interesting things that you write and for keeping a technologically illiterate girl like me updated about what is going on in your advanced world of global communication.

At first I was totally illiterate about the AT&T technology used in T - mobiles.

5 «God's Own Country:» This poignant, tone - perfect drama features two conflicted lads, one from Romania (played with natural ease by Alec Secareanu) and the other a bitter, closeted, mostly illiterate farmer (Josh O'Connor in an Oscar worthy performance) and their uneasy attraction.

Just because tech companies are churning out software for kids doesn't mean your child will turn out computer illiterate if she doesn't get computer time daily.

Therefore, painting became at once the vehicle for the communication of the gospel to illiterates among the faithful and the expression of the faithfulness of people of immense power and station.

Calling Byrne economically illiterate is a kind and generous, and the best that can be said of Twigg is that he's affable.

No instructions were included.How much could a group of illiterate children learn with the technology?