Imagine this for a moment if you will:
You were born into a situation that meant there was no money to put you through school.
Your government, or the isolated environment you live in, or the time and age you were born in means you cannot access written education.
There is no one to teach you to read and no books for you to read even if you had a teacher.
According to this website "roughly 781 million adults worldwide... cannot read or write".
Just let that sink in: 781 million adults.
That's basically the equivalent of the entire populations of Indonesia + Nigeria + the Philippines + Bangladesh. All of them. Altogether.
Not being able to read or write is a very big problem for the world we live in today.
Few people are able to continue to live the way we used to, in tribes, living off the land. Collectively we have changed the world so very much that to be illiterate (not able to read or write) in at least one language creates enormous limitations on a person's potential.
I'm not even talking about being able to read and write in the most widely spoken languages--English, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish & French--I'm talking about being able to read and write just in your own mother tongue.
Obviously, being able to read and write in one of the world's most widely spoken languages has its real advantages. And some of us have been lucky enough to have been born with one of these as our very first language.
But if you're reading this, even if English is your second or third (or fourth or fifth!) language, the fact that you can read it is a huge blessing to your life.
Not because my posts are the best thing you've ever read (😂) but rather because so much opportunity is afforded to you if you can read posts such as this.
Read on the phone. Read on a computer. Read a book. We have so many options!
If there is one problem in the world I would love to solve it would be illiteracy. Why? Because I value education so much!
Imagine the world that we could create if everyone had access to the things you and I get to learn just because we can open an internet browser and type in a question?
Imagine the problems we could solve, collectively, if people could read books on personal development, and business, and finance?
Imagine!
How beautiful would that world be if we could all,
all of us,
every last brother and sister,
from every single country on the planet,
learn the things our minds yearn to learn,
read the stories that would open our hearts to one another,
write the things our souls want to express?
Can you imagine how beautiful that world would be?
This was my response to the following prompt:
The solution
If you were able to find a solution to only one of the following problems, ONLY ONE, which would you choose and why? Write a post of 300 words or more.
Unemployment
Illiteracy
Homelessness
Animal cruelty
Organised crime
If you're looking for something to write about this weekend, Galen has provided six options for you to pick from in his WEEKEND EXPERIENCES Community. Check them out here.
Honestly if I'm not able to read beautiful post you make I'm definitely going to feel bad .
. And a world were there's no education, the world is going to be a stressful place...
Imagine talking to who doesn't understand you..
That wouldn't be nice .
Thank you for this wonderful piece
Thanks, @redna. I'm glad I get to understand your kind words 🙂
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Indeed. If we were more educated then that would solve a lot of the OTHER problems of the world!
Hmmmm... this was going to be MY pick for the prompt! lol
Agreed! 💯
And you can still make it the prompt you choose, Zak. Because even if your main thesis is the same you'll express it a different way and it will reach a different audience who may benefit from it.
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Indeed you are right. I will consider it then! 😄😄😄
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I'm blessed to be able to speak and write 3 languages and fortunately I'm blessed for the opportunity to have had an education!
You make a strong case to why education is such an important issue to address for a better society!
Wonderful post from you as usual my darling 🤗☺️ big hugs and kiss ❤️
I'm so lucky you speak and write in three languages 🙏 And grateful that I took can write and read your kind words. Thank you darling.
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As a librarian, I can say firsthand that knowing how to read is only half the battle. what to read, and then how to analyze it are the next hurdles.
Ooooh. You're a librarian! Soft spot for librarians; my Dad was one when I was little, when he wasn't being a teacher, that is.
Good points: we can fill our head with garbage and still not become the kind, brilliant, creative humans we're all capable of being.
Your point is top-notch, an illiterate can't get employed. I enjoyed reading.
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Thanks for reblogging this, @deisip67! 🙏
I think the life that is suitable for people who don't read is a beautiful life, but that is not the life most of those illiterate people are living. What I mean is that I know elderly people who never read and they didn't need it, a full life in their own way, very natural, but we don't live in a world that supports it anymore, now not being able to read is a bigger issue than it used to be.
Now, me. I do 90% of my interactions in writing, and when I was in a residence by myself, there were days I didn't talk at all, just read. If I didn't know how to read and write I would pretty much be even more asocial hahaha
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I'm an extroverted introverted. People who I do talk to don't believe I'm introverted, but they don't notice that I'm not talking with everyone. Just some of my friends really get it.
Writing is easier to think about what to say and then say it. I've made really good friends this way... even though not so many at the same time 😅 but they are also introverted so I don't thing we would have talked at all in person hahahaha.
Nice to talk to you!
Hehe. Love it. I'm similar to you in that I would identify the most as "an extroverted introvert". I don't love these terms but I know they can help to get a point across.
I also like writing because I can be deliberate about what I say and phrase it better than whatever might fall out of my mouth 😅
Do you find that your behaviour changes a lot depending on the situation you're in as to how introverted or extroverted you are? I find that the more people I know who are friendly acquaintances or closer, the more extroverted I tend to be. The more I'm surrounded by strangers, the more introverted I tend to be.
I'm guessing it has the most to do with how comfortable or safe we feel to be ourselves?
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Yeah, I do change based on who is around me, the closer to me they are, the more comfortable I'm talking. But it also depends on the topic, because I've found myself being very spoken with other people when I'm confident in the topic we are talking about and I know they are interested in it, for example in the Hive meet-ups, I will talk a lot, but in a random party, I won't.
I tend to infodump, it can be great for people interested in what I'm saying, but pretty annoying if they are not.
Hehehehe. We are
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I'd feel like I did when I was about two.
I think the worst punishment I can ever be given is to be asked to read in my dialect. I can speak the language to a very good extent but I suck at reading it. I can still remember just like yesterday the first time I saw a Bible written in my language, the punctuation are not just from this world, the punctuations will determine how the word will sound. Thank you for this post, it made me remember how I have been running and still running from how to read in my dialect 😂
Oh, wow! How interesting!!! Do you need to be able to read in your dialect?
I actually needed to. From our country side here (Nigeria), sometimes, the best way to better communicate a written material with the far aging person is if it's written in that language, there will be words that we may able to read out that we don't know the meaning but they do. But if written in English, I may never find the right word for that.
Ah, interesting! Sounds like a good challenge for you! 😉
So what it is that you need to communicate to the far aging people in the countryside?
And sometimes, staying around them can be so much fun
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