Literacy
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Try to imagine our society without a common language. This could be quite a hard idea to fathom. Allow me to assist you. If this case were in fact true, a typical conversation between two individuals would be as follows: one of the two would begin the conversation by making noises representing their language, the other person would not understand these noises and respond with unrecognizable noises to the first individual. As you can well imagine, we would be quite frustrated. Literacy is defined as the quality or state of being literate, the ability to read and write. If the symbols, letters, meanings are not agreed upon by those attempting to communicate, then interpreting each others thoughts becomes difficult. Simply stated, literacy is very important.
Society has proven repeatedly, it will reward those individuals who are competent and impede those who are not, whether in terms of employment opportunities or just a good social level. Without adequate literary skills, one may not be able to read and interpret a sign giving instructions on what to do incase of a fire...