The person who can read and write is also more capable of understanding directions for operating and maintaining machinery and other technology. Such a person can therefore be trained more quickly and inexpensively than someone who must have everything shown or explained in detail by another person on the payroll. The literate person is also less likely to injure himself, someone else, or the equipment through ignorance.

Assuming the absence of tape recorders or other technology for recording and reproducing the spoken word later, which an illiterate person would less likely have available than a literate person, the spoken word is here and gone again almost immediately. The illiterate person is therefore dependent on someone else with a good memory and character to make his wishes known in his absence, such as in a bequest.

A written document is physical proof of the terms of a contract and its existence makes disputes regarding the contract’s terms much easier to resolve. The reader does not need to rely as much on imperfect memory to keep the terms of such a contract and is considerably less vulnerable to charges of faulty memory or outright lying if his position agrees with the written contract’s text.

The literate person also has better information available on which to make decisions and does not need to rely as much on someone’s interpretation of documents and is less vulnerable to accumulated inaccuracies through repeated word-of-mouth information transfer.

Insofar as ways to promote literacy, a lot of information on literacy rates is out of date. Although illiterate people can be found in every country, it is not always true that poor countries are poor because their citizens are illiterate. The literacy rate in Cuba, for example, puts the United States to shame. I am therefore not convinced that India is a good example of a country with a generally poor literacy rate.

Social awairness

Literacy Programms in Villages

Cultural Programms related to the importance of Literacy

Illetrate people should be participated in high level in such programms

Guidence for illetrates

2. The wife/mother has less crappy laundry.

3. That society is not known as full of crap.

4. Are you S***ing me? Written ads don’t help. If a person is too stupid to be able to read (give illiterates the stupid stigma) then one can treat them like they might crap in their pants at any second.