However, it is estimated that 818 million adults around the world are illiterate, that is, they are unable to read or write. A majority of them are women.
A study in Hyderabad, for instance, reproduced the finding of a four-year delay in the onset of dementia among bilinguals- except that the gap was six years for those test cases who were illiterate.
But there were no earnings, there were only debts, and so there were no free schools and there was a generation of children growing up in ignorance who would spread the seeds of illiteracy down the years.
While Herzog has stated he doesn't consciously consider the themes in his films, and despite his insistence that film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates, I think we can nevertheless draw some illuminating connections.
Miss Rose says these countries need literacy programs that target women. She says there is a huge need for illiterate young women and adults to have a second-chance to read and write.
" Early in my experience as a minister I discovered that, in spite of romance and good intentions, many couples who come to the marriage altar are matrimonial illiterates. " Matrimonial illiterates!
Instead, terms like " desperate illiterates" and " the fish that slipped through the net of the nine-year compulsory education" are receiving more critical attention.
The U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- UNESCO says programs are needed to help illiterate women learn, although they are passed school age.