ILLITERACY

ILLITERACY

An illiterate person is someone who doesn't know how to read and write. On the other hand, a literate person is someone who can read and write.

CAUSES OF ILLITERACY

• Traditional and value system.
• Poverty.
• Wrong priority.
• Wrong attitude toward education.
• Poor and inadequate educational facilities and materials.
• Lack of access to learning materials.

CONSEQUENCES OF ILLITERACY

• Ignorance, poverty, and disease.
• Susceptibility to manipulation.
• Ethnic violence.
• Inhibition of technological development.
• Denial of rights and abuse of rights.

EFFECTS OF ILLITERACY

• An illiterate person is an ignorant person, so he will behave in an animalistic way.
• Illiterate societies will never develop at all.
• An illiterate person does not have the ability to improve his own nation.
• An illiterate person cannot benefit himself and his community.
• An illiterate person may find himself in drug trafficking or drug abuse.

SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF ILLITERACY

• Adoption of enabling laws and policies.
• Provision of access to road facilities.
• Mass mobilization programs.
• Legalizing compulsory education.
• Government should provide good schools for free education.
• Government should encourage literacy programs.
• Provision of adequate facilities.