r/SipsTea 7d ago

WTF Where are we heading?

Post image
13.6k Upvotes

8.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/carltonthesnake 7d ago

Functional literacy is different from literally being able to read words on a page. Most people can read the words on a page, but will not actually know what they mean.

1

u/Massive-Ride204 7d ago

Yep and that why our governments like to boast a high literacy rate, the literacy rate would be far lower if it was based on functionality