What are some dangers of illiteracy?
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There aren't any dangers of illiteracy, just disadvantages.\n\nDisadvantages such as, but not limited to:\nIf an adult cannot read the warning labels on harmful products or medications, it can put our communities at risk. \nWhen thousands cannot fill out job applications, it is not surprising that unemployment is high. Since illiterate adults have a lower earning potential than high school graduates, tax revenues are lost. \nIlliteracy can also promote poverty that can result in substance abuse and crime.
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My husband is illiterate. Life is very hard some times for him. He is very intelligent, but has a learning disorder. There are a lot of illiterate people out there and you would never know it. It is well hidden, and very sad that our school systems do no better than this.
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World Peace\nEradication of poverty\nLiteracy for all people
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Poverty\nRacism\nGender bias\nPolitical apathy\nIncreased gap between wealth & poor\nWhite collar crime
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Poverty\nBelief systems\nGender / sexism\nCultural practices\nAvailability of resources to meet needs\nGeographic location\nAvailability of meaningful work or activity\nHaving suffered personal trauma (assault) or public tragedy (war, natural disasters, etc.)\nSocial isolation due to disability, old age, etc.
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Why is Dyslexia so difficult to spell.
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Johann Gutenberg\nWithout he most people might still be illiterate peasants.\nBefore him most books including the bible where only available to a select few.
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Do you even know what illiterate means?  Since you can't even spell illiterate, you must BE illiterate.  Not knowing what to say in a situation has nothing to do with a person's ability to read and write.
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sore loserness.....and ofcourse\nso they can read well what they Type!\n\nche' mazzo di perdenti!
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The underpinnings of your question touch on the notion of ...." what is better for our society....reading a book or getting on the computer"\n\nDiversity has always been a good teacher.  Maybe read a book and blog it on the computer or vice versa.  That may be good for you as well as society.\n\nJust a side bar, but as you know it is much more difficult to write a book over just reading one.  Consider the relatively few people that are actually writing, and you can easily become amazed at how prolific a small portion of our "writing" global population can be.\n\nThe illiteracy rate in Africa, Arab Countires, and South Asia still to this day runs as high as 50% and more and also varies statistically by gender (male /female).
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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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Because of illiteracy of publics and corruption of politicians
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What's the Worst That Could Happen?
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ignorant\nnaive\nunaware\nuninformed\nteachable\nwise (with respect to what they already know and its application)\n\nRelative to a poor knowledge environment may take two words\nbadly informed - knowlege provided but it was not quite right, versus uninformed where no knowleged was provided.\n\nTry a thesaurus, many words and word groups
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What is bad for your health is not knowing how to spell correctly.
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illiterate mean's not being able to read and there is no pun!!
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According to the CIA...\n\nLiteracy:   \ndefinition: age 15 and over can read and write \ntotal population: 99.6% \nmale: 99.7% \nfemale: 99.5% (2003 est.)