LeVar Burton: Criticism Of Reading Rainbow Is ‘Bullsh*t’ | ThinkProgress

“If you want free, independent thinkers, people who can discern for themselves, people who want to actively participate in a democracy, you want them literate. If you want to control people, if you want to feed them a pack of lies and dominate them, keep them ignorant. For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”