literacy

• Many of the publications in Japan limit themselves to these characters, to facilitate literacy -- some are required to. —  Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything
• Media literacy is an expanded concept of literacy—the ability to share meaning through symbolic form, including critical viewing and response.
• By the way, Richard Gilder recently wrote an articulate piece on the known value of Latin in English literacy.
• But all the various surveys of literacy undertaken in the U.S. (and also reflected elsewhere in the English-speaking world) point towards not just systematic sub-literacy (93 million Americans with basic or below basic literacy skills) but accelerating a-literacy, which is to say - the ability to read but the decision not to - and diminishing information skills. —  doggdot.us
• Technical and vocational training continue to undergo reform to provide skills badly needed by our people, especially the rural population -- literacy and skills are essential for self-improvement, including the improved ability to engage better agricultural practices such as use of modern inputs like fertilizer. —  Fast Company

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