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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
The [[National Center for Education Statistics]] has three separate categories of literacy: prose, document, and quantitative. Prose literacy is the ability to read and comprehend written material, document literacy is the ability to understand maps or schedules, and quantitative literacy is the ability to do basic mathematic functions. According to their 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (pr NAAL) report, 30 million adult Americans do not have basic prose literacy skills. Someone who has basic literacy can "perform simple and everyday literacy activities." By this account, 14% of the adult population was "functionally illiterate," which means they may or may not be able to perform the simplest "literacy" skills (such as recognizing their own name, rather than ''reading'' it). <ref> [http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp] </ref>
The [[National Center for Education Statistics]] has three separate categories of literacy: prose, document, and quantitative. Prose literacy is the ability to read and comprehend written material, document literacy is the ability to understand maps or schedules, and quantitative literacy is the ability to do basic mathematic functions. According to their 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (pr NAAL) report, 30 million adult Americans do not have basic prose literacy skills. Someone who has basic literacy can "perform simple and everyday literacy activities." By this account, 14% of the adult population was "functionally illiterate," which means they may or may not be able to perform the simplest "literacy" skills (such as recognizing their own name, rather than ''reading'' it). <ref> [http://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp] </ref>
==Quotes==
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) http://andylangton.co.uk/stuff/cool-quotes]
[[Category:Linguistics]]
[[Category:Linguistics]]