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It’s not the ignorance of your peasant in Anatolia, or any peasant anywhere … If you are dealing with people who do not know how to read and know they don’t know how to read, it is at least conceivable that you can teach them how to read. If an African peasant doesn’t know how to drive a tractor, or how to irrigate a barren field, he can be taught those things. But I don’t know what you do with the people who are ignorant in the way Americans are ignorant. Who believe they can read, and who read their Reader’s Digest, Time magazine, the Daily News, who think that’s reading, who think they know ...more
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
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