Today is World Literacy Day. He should remind of the problems with reading and writing. The shame of being discovered is great. How victims can be helped.
About 860 million adults worldwide cannot read and write properly. In Austria, almost a million people suffer from it: every ninth is unable or insufficiently. About half of them have German as their mother tongue.
Many factors play a role
They have completed compulsory education, many have a job. Why people are illiterate has to do with individual, family, school and social factors and has nothing to do with lack of intelligence – as is often wrongly assumed.
Huge gap eats away at self-esteem
Not being able to fill the big gap, not meeting expectations – all this eats away at self-esteem. “If it were normal not to learn to read and write in school, as is often the case with other content, illiteracy would not be taboo,” explains adult educator Sonja Muckenhuber of the Center for Adult Education in Linz, founding member of the network www. . alphabetisierungs .at.
Unfortunately, however, it is still assumed “that one should simply be able to read and write. If that’s not the case, you won’t be accepted as a full member of society’, says Muckenhuber. Course offers and funding are also available anonymously by calling 0812 20 0812.
Source: Krone
I am Ida Scott, a journalist and content author with a passion for uncovering the truth. I have been writing professionally for Today Times Live since 2020 and specialize in political news. My career began when I was just 17; I had already developed a knack for research and an eye for detail which made me stand out from my peers.
