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Literacy   /lˈɪtərəsi/   Listen
Literacy

noun
1.
The ability to read and write.





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"Literacy" Quotes from Famous Books



... literacy or ownership of property was waived, however, in case of foreigners naturalized before January 1, 1898, who had lived in the State five years, and in the case of men who had voted in any State before 1867, or of sons or ...
— The New South - A Chronicle Of Social And Industrial Evolution • Holland Thompson
... impatiently awaiting this moment. He therefore plunged eagerly into his subject. "Mr. Ames," said he, "I know you to have great influence at the Capital. In the interests of humanity, I ask you to use that influence to prevent the passage of the immigration bill which provides for a literacy test." ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
... the notion which ignores its social necessity and its identity with all human association that affects conscious life, and which identifies it with imparting information about remote matters and the conveying of learning through verbal signs: the acquisition of literacy. ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey


Words linked to "Literacy" :   illiteracy, attainment, skill, accomplishment, acquirement, illiterate, acquisition


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