can someone be illiterate yet still intelligent?
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Yes. Man had to have intelligence first before there could be literacy. \n\nIntelligence is having a high degree of mental capacity and expressing good judgment and sound thought. \n\nIlliteracy simply means having little or no education, being unable to read or write.\n\nThere are many ways one can learn in addition to reading and writing, therefore I believe a person can be capable of intelligent conversation and abstract thinking without having had an education.
84532
Illeiteracy is nothing to be ashamed of. There are Adult tutoring classes (even private one-on-one tutors) But, if you can't READ, then how are you going to decipher these answers?????
865245
And your illiteracy is cool because...?
538553
I understand the question....\n\nCommon sense is inversely proportional to intellegence.\n\nThe more brilliant and specialzed a person is... the more likely they will specialize and become CLUELESS in other area.  \n\nI once knew a BRILLIANT woman... who did not know that the "DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL INDICATOR" she read about in her drivers handbook... was the "BLINKER".\n\nGO figure.
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Oh it is just one of those annoying little things that make you more intelligent. You become better able to comprehend the world you live in and to assimilate information. You can then begin to form an opinion or understanding with just a little more information. It is sort of like being able to speak well, or spell. It is nice to be able to communicate clearly with others.You can avoid a wide assortment of problems with a little knowledge.
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It's possible to be so smart that simple things become difficult.  It's possible to be brilliant and have no common sense.  It's possible that ignorance is bliss.\n\nSide note:  God takes the simple things of this world to confound the wise, the Bible says. . .if that's true. . .wise people often make mountains out of molehills. . .or try.
579772
Dyslexic people often have high IQ's but the brain does not work properly when decoding text or numbers.  Before dyslexia became so widely recognised there used to be a lot of stigma attached to it. Pupils who struggled with reading and spelling were written off and deemed as thick. This was the case thrity years ago when I was growing up.\n\nAccording to the dyslexia institute: Dyslexia affects all kinds of people regardless of intelligence, race or social class. The effects of dyslexia can largely be overcome by skilled specialist teaching and the use of compensatory strategies.  The earlier the intervention the better the outcome.
193446
Perhaps they can't spell?
547830
Many of the worlds most intelligent and famous people throughout history had special needs. One example is Albert Einstein.  He was doing very poorly in school and the teachers did not like him and thought he was just a slacker. His mother had to take him out of school and decided to home school. He was a genius. \n\nMost people who are special needs eg. ADD,ADHD,DYSLEXIA, etc usually have 'above' average intelligence. The can have memory problems and seem out of it but anyone who knows them, is aware that this is not about intelligence.\n\nPeople who do not understand them tend to 'treat' them poorly and unless they get 'a lot' of strong support elsewhere they can fail at life because of their very low self esteem - but not because they are dumb. \n\nSo it is mistreatment that leaves them winding up in prisons, correction facilities etc. Many are already convinced that they are 'losers' in grade 'one.' They have been destroyed while still babes - unless there is intervention. Public abuse because of ignorance is their real downfall.  \n\nDon't listen to the comments about SPELL CHECK. Everybody makes mistakes, and your question was 'perfectly' understandable. Only a moron would have trouble understanding it. The others are just being cruel.
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I'm WAY too curious of a person to be ignorant. I enjoy learning and understanding why things happen and I am constantly asking, "what if?" Definitely intelligent. If you learn about something and why it happens, you can understand it better and see a possible outcome, or different outcomes, and not be so stressed. Of course there are always things you'd like to be ignorant about, like accidentally seeing your grannie naked when you're a kid. Some things just weren't meant to be seen by young children!
96511
umm.... by the depth of your question i would have to say you are, probably not the smartest person i have been exposed to. But pretty average for on here i guess.
957473
Only if they had felt the faith/belief in their heart. They can understand intellectually but not completely.
529660
Bush's greatest intellectual inaptitude is best evidenced by his inability to speak articulately and to form grammatically correct sentences. It's extremely ironic  that whomever asked this question, as well as most of those who answered it, have demonstrated that they are at least equally deficient. If you are going to attack someone's intelligence, you should be at least as intelligent as they are. Otherwise, you are unwittingly degrading yourself. Try to be a little less judgmental. While Bush may not be the most brilliant person, or the most eloquent speaker, he isn't a moron. You might try spending a few weeks under constant video surveillance and just see how smart you sound when the media rolls the tape. Good luck.
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Without the ability to read and write it is not possible for a person to communicate in any way but through direct speech. It also eliminates the possibility of recordin knowledge, experience, and manipulate data. It also eliminates the possibility of a person inclined to be creative with words, to make their creations permanent and available to those masses that can read.  Lack of reading skill limits any persons ability to accumulate knowledge rapidly, rather they must learn by personal experience and experimentation. They might spend a life time gaining the knowledge that might be already available in a matter of minutes from a book or other written source.\n\nLock of reading and writing skill eliminates a persons ability to enjoy the fruits of civilation, they are denied all technical knowledge, even the ability to know how many apples they have in one person gives them 2 and onther gives them 4. They have a picture of the result but cannot calculate who they arrivedat the graphic picture.
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I am just going to assume this is a valid question and give it an honest answer. I am not the greatest speller myself and I am a college graduate. Did you know that the ability to spell has nothing to do with how intelligent a person is? My sister is a teacher and she told me an individual is either a speller or not, that it has something to do with how brains work, but nothing to do with intelligence. I was so releaved to hear that! Though how I could get such a high IQ score if spelling were predicated upon intelligence I don't know, so this should have demonstrated the truth long before my sister validated it for me. \n\nAnyway, if you are attempting to learn a second language, it can be tough. If you are still learning how to read and write in your first language, it is still tough. Difficult that is. It can be difficult to learn to read and write in any language. However, I have heard the english language is one of the most difficult. Not the number one difficult, but one of the harder ones to learn. There is just so much to learn, and much of it contridicts itself or doesn't follow the rules. \n\nPhonics is just half of the battle in learning proper reading and writing of the english language. I also reccoment a tutor if you can find one. Obtaining a good solid foundation of both the fundemental rules and the phonics of reading and writing are extreamly important to skilled use of the english language is written form. It helps in speaking it properly as well. \n\nLooking for a tutor should not be too difficult. First check out what resources are available at your school. Utilize those resources as much as you can. Your teacher and/or school counselor should know what is available for you. If there isn't anything avialable, I understand school funding is getting cut drastically in even these basic services, then it will depend on one of two things: 1. If you have friends who would be willing to assist you and 2. your financial situation, if you have the money to purchase a tutor.\n\nIt may also assist you to go to both the school library and the local public library. There you can access books to help you teach yourself what you need to know. There are many individuals who needed to self instruct, for many reasons. Two of the reasons are not having access to a free public school system, and having learning disabilities which the school did not address properly, and failed students with such disabilities.\n\nHaving a learning disability has nothing to do with how smart or intelligent a person is. It just means there is a disability which interfers with an individuals ability to access his/her intellegence the way others without disabilities can and take for granted every day. Those without learning disability do not really understand what it is like having one. They often tease kids who do have one and make those kids feel stupid when the kids with the disability may be smarter than those without any disabilty. \n\nI have made a couple of assumptions from your question. That you are either attempting to learn the proper way to read and write in your first langauge or you are attempting to learn a second or even third language. I have also assummed you may have a learning disability. You may not. I have not assummed you are stupid. The only stupid question is the question not asked, in my opinion. \n\nI have not assummed you intentionally made this question appear as though you are uneducated or engaging in teasing us who are answering this question. If you are teasing, then oh well. \n\nI wish you the best, and happiness always, good luck in acheiving all you hope to acheive in life.
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You can't compare two people who is more intelligent unless both have the same knowledge.
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Education is not an indicator of intelligence. Education is a tool to enable you to better use your intelligence and increase your capabilities. All the education in the world will not make a dumb person smart, or give anyone the slightest amount of common sense.