¶ Literacy
Index Entry
Literacy:
"Literacy is absolutely Number One priority. You have to know what your problem is. Russia was able to go from under 10 percent literacy up to I think 92 percent in a little over a decade. That came from a deep understanding that literacy was absolutely essential.
"Historically, men weren’t literate. It’s an absolutely extraordinary thing to have a world where people are literate and where people can read and communicate and information gets passed around the way it does today. It’s a very new matter. But I don’t expect miracles. As you become literate, more and more literate, you realize that we do start with a mind and that in the end it’s going to be mind over matter. Man has been operating with matter over mind right up to now.
“The guy who was strongest and toughest could get hold of a gold mine and say: Listen, you, you understand, that’s mine. Pure right makes might. We’re just breaking out from that. Everybody had just accepted the idea of property. But there’s nothing from God in those deeds. Nothing from Universe. It’s simply from the strong man. So there’s nothing in there about logic or how to make the world work. It’s simply an illiterate man who’s very hungry and tough and big and how does he act.”
