Literacy is ....

All very well provided people are taught to THINK and QUESTION what they are reading. When you read without questioning you allow yourself to be brainwashed and become brain dead.

I am afraid that few people, including highly educated ones, think. It is so much easier to just accept what is dished out as truth or news.

Thinking demands an effort, an enquiring mind and practice.

It is so much easier to just accept...