If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.
Ideas have consequences that can transform society.
I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.
You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.