The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society – Jonathan Kozol PDF

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The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society by Jonathan Kozol. Notes (Pg. 226-234)  Do we really want illiterate adults choosing who the next leader of our county is?  Illiterate people cannot read traffic sings, or follow a specified path or route to get to their destination. This makes them a HUGE danger to society and the drivers on the roads. If an illiterate person cannot differentiate a “maximum 100km/h sign to a maximum 30km/h sign” that person is capable of causing mass amounts of damage.  It is very easy to cheat an illiterate person, since they cannot understand numbers and letters, any person that the illiterate society trusts, can easily fraud them with their bills, taxes, etc.  Even if you think that an illiterate person can hold down a job, they cant. If you are a janitor, you still need to read and write, if a person leaves you a note saying “clean so and so” you won’t be able to read it ...