Why is it important to prevent illiteracy?
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You know, since time began the ordinary folk have been kept in ignorance and illiterate. Books burnt, censored and so on.It has been a tool of the ruling classes and religious zealots to let the under classes know as little as possible and to keep them as ignorant as possible.\nIt is of course very important that illiteracy is addressed for everyone. How can there be democracy when there is no access to knowledge.The problem is in the developing world the ordinary people are still subjected to limited knowledge.Illiteracy is a serious tool of power.\nI wonder how it will be when the whole world has equal access to literacy.Please dont tell me that computers have given us access. How many people in Thailand, India, South America and even in the so called developed world have their own pc.
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Laziness and lack of accountability in school.  If no one has made them get assignments correct they see no reason why they should spend the extra time to do so.  After all it takes about three seconds to do the spell check.  Why should they waste those three seconds of their life just to show the public that they are actually educated?
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literacy-foods\nliteracy-fallowers\nliteracy-osomas\nwe get some of them and the bad guys get some of them
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Yes, it is very unfortunate because it reinforces that we don't put enough emphasis on the importance of education.  Many people will go to a job interview and use a word like that and they will leave not understanding why they didn't get the job.
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here's one\nhttp://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/is_illiteracy_so_bad.php\nand another one\nhttp://www.efmoody.com/miscellaneous/illiteracy.html
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You're obviously illiterate, so does it really matter?
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for a start education makes people aware and not get fooled w.r.t. economic sense
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Reading in early childhood actually enhance our cognitive developments.  Also, we learn more vocabularies and sounds of words.  In adulthood, it's really to expand our writing styles and capabilities.
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I think your chances of dying from illiteracy are greater.
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because there is a major lack of education, u can see that in all well educated countries, people are more civilized and thus more peaceful, in not so educated countries, leaders try to keep their power by feeding crap into everyone else's brains...i believe that until we provide good education to everyone, there will never be peace....and peace to me is internal satisfaction...
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Even if the students don't read regularly or daily, It is compulsary for the teachers to read daily! They can't stand in front of the student without preparing for their class! students are smarter now-a-days! My sis is a teacher! She sits with her subject book and papers every evening regularly to update her knowlege!\n   But if the teacher has been teaching the same subject for a pretty long time period, She/ he would have mastered the book and so need not spend much time reading!\n   They will read the books of the subject which they are handling! They read encyclopedias! Ofcourse reading again and again make them master the book and subject and so they become professionally talented!
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Education is important for everyone.  It broadens the mind and gives one a more balanced world view.  It contributes to an informed world, a more tolerant, kinder, more understanding world.  Most wars happen because of ignornance and misunderstanding and lack of tolerance.  \n\nEducation is also likely to contribute to an easier, less pressured way of life since it is more likely that an educated person will have a job that permits a relatively carefree life style.  Education leads to independence and increased feelings of self worth and positive self image.\n\nMany females in today's world find themselves raising children, either through choice or mischance, without moral or financial support from the father of the children.  Education helps them both morally and financially, and also allows them to present a better role model for their children.\n\nGetting an education is one of the best gifts you can give yourself.
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It is important to the world. Leads to knowlege, new ideas, new advances, takes away ignorance, and leads to a better understanding of the world.
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It contributes, but literacy doesn't garuntee wealth.
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Far too many people with very poor literacy skills have access to a computer. Literacy should be like hygiene; practice it every day.
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Get off your high horse...this is a forum for anyone who wants to participate in it, not just for smart people who proofread.  Misspelled words aren't necessarily a sign of poor education as much as laziness (not to suggest that laziness is any better).  Just get over it.
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I am not sure what kind of reply you are expecting... but here is a very general one. \nIf you are talking about mother tongue, then I would say the connection is that the wider your spoken vocabulary is, the more you can undersatand in reading. Which means you don't have to stop every time you read an unknown word. On the other hand, reading is known to improve spoken language. For instance, I have learned in pedagogy classes that if a child reads only 20 minutes a day, he will most probably learn around new 6 words just by grasping meaning from the context, and even more words if he searches for the unknown words in the dictionary.  \nIf you are talking about a foreign language, it is quite obvious that the better proficiency you have in that foreign languge, the faster you can read. And all the above things I said go the same here too. Reading improves spoken language, by increasing the active vocabulary of a person.