One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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