Literacy. What does it mean, where did it come from, who is defined by it, and what does it define? Literacy is not just a word, it’s more or less a way of life. In todays world we have defined literate as a person who can read, and write, but to me it goes far more than that. Like many who can say they are literate, they went to school again like me. In todays world, going to school is a right of passage, and to go to college that puts you in one of the top educational tiers in America. So that’s why I and many others go to college so that you can become a better citizen, and eventually more literate. In 2015 to be literate doesn’t mean that you can just read, and write it means that you can go beyond yourself and understand others around you. So then how did we get there through the past, the present and anticipation for the future.
Before coming to Fairfield University I went to school just like everyone else, but no one’s school experience is the same. Its what you make of it, and take from that’s what changes you. The past on how I became literate is a complex one, but one thing I believe everyone can agree on is the way we got here was through hard work and determination, and I’m not
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Today knowledge is available to almost everyone. There is a debate in the global community about is knowledge, literacy or and education a luxury or a human right. Just like the water debate Professor Madden brought up. Is water a commodity, or it is a right? Are the things we considered rights actually rights or are they luxuries, for what I can tell we try to make commodities act as rights, but they will run out eventually. One thing I can say knowledge will never run out we past what we learn on to the next generation as well as our neighbors, but now through because of the internet we can connect to people we would have never met or