RE: Can Literacy Make You a Better Human or Just Better at Grammar?
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I'm hoping I won't write an epistle on this. Being literate is not proportional to being educated. Let me clarify. Literacy is more of reading and writing while education is wholesome- it affects the entire being. This is why we oftentimes call some people uneducated literates or educated illiterates.
Going to school makes you literate and getting educated somehow but being educated is totally up to an individual. We have social education, mental education, religious/spiritual education and so on.
Hence, one can be so sound with grammar, vocabularies and oral English but still dull in many areas. That's why we have academic giants who still commit social blunders so to say. Going to school or being in school opens you up to endless education if you can grab the opportunity.
This is looking like an epistle to Philemon already.
I rest my case
I get you but your point of being a literate isn’t proportional to being educated, I believe all literate people are educated
Like you said, being literate has to do with being able to read and understand language which makes communication better even tho there are blunders but don’t you think bring a literate is the foundation of being an educated person in any area, either street, or other field, in as much the person is literate, they won’t find it difficult to cope in some dire situations like an illerate would. Most time, an illiterate would either worsen the situation or put people in danger
Can't believe I'm just getting back to this
I get you but your point of being a literate isn’t proportional to being educated, I believe all literate people are educated
You're right since literacy itself is education infact a foundation but education is broader than literacy alone and sometimes people limit themselves.
This is where my point comes in.
I'm in the academics, I see senior officers who can't use MS word without supervision.
Well, that’s also right
I feel what you said and I agree with it