The chief function of literacy is to make us masters of this standard instrument of knowledge and communication, thereby enabling us to give and receive complex information orally and in writing over time and space. Advancing technology, with its constant need for fast and complex communications, has made literacy ever more essential to commerce and domestic life.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The chief function of literacy is to make us masters of this standard instrument of knowledge
From E.D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy.
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